This paper investigates the following questions: what were the effects of the 1990s economic reforms on employment, wages, income inequality indicators and international competitiveness? Did economic reforms cause major or minor effects on the economy? Who were the gainers and the losers of the...

This work is an outcome of a broader research agenda that aims at assessing the efficiency of some remarkable Brazilian Government's social programs. Here, efficiency means the actual (observed)/optimal (targets) ratio for both inputs and outputs that the programs use to achieve their...

This paper shows an alternative specification of the demand functions of both total imports and the imports of capital goods for Brazil. The set up is based on the conjecture that a variable expressing the availability of foreign exchange should be included in these import functions. Our...

This paper analyses - in a structuralist approach - the recent path (1980/2000) of Brazilian economy and the consequencies over the labour market. There are three important aspects to be noted in the text. First, we present the main relations between the crisis of Brazilian economy and the...