The worry with the effects of public expenditures is appeal, mainly for their impacts on economic growth. Many papers suggest that public expenditures should raise the private productivity and the economic growth. On the one hand, an expansion of public expenditures that are financed by...

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...