We investigate both theoretically and empirically the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization of the Brazilian labor market in the recent period. Based on search models, we present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain the recent increase in the share...

The idea of work as a right has been in public debate since the beginning of the contemporary era - and so, intertwined with the discussion of human rights. Over time, the right to work has transmuted in the right to decent work, with all the characteristics ascribed to the latter. In Brazil,...

In recent years, Brazil has seen an increase in formal employment, the raising of the minimum wage, a recovery in the purchasing power of the average wage, a drop in open unemployment and curbs on unprotected subcontracting. Average household incomes have risen and poverty has declined. How was...

Wage employment is essential to a fair participation of workers in economic, social and political fields. This economic relation is based on many (and relevant) labour and social rights. However, in the 1990`s and the beginning of the 2000`s, wage employment lost a bit of its importance in the...