This paper aims to shed some lights on the empirical literature about the effects of minimum wage on brazilian labor market and income distribution. In addition to point to stylized facts we also tried to motivate new research lines in this area. We overview the contents of each contribution...

The objective of this discussion paper is to estimate the impact that changes in the value of the minimum wage will have upon the distribution of individual labor income. Two complementary approaches will be used. The first approach is to use non parametric estimators to estimate the individual...

This paper aims present, for the Brazilian reality, a diagnosis of the relationships among education and inequality that it justifies the need to define a politics of accelerated expansion of education to assure the bases of a sustainable process of development. The analysis of the labor market,...

This dissertation is an empirical investigation on the validity of main relationships, established in a theoretical model developed by Ferreira (2001), about the interaction between income, educational and political inequalities, as well as the influence of these inequalities on an economy's per...

The high degree of income inequality is a chronic trait of the Brazilian society, and is in the center of the country's social-political agenda. The social demand for public policies that contribute to narrowing the differentials and disparities is intense and has been increasing in recent...