In the last 15 years, informality in the Brazilian labor market has been rising steadily, having stabilized in the last two years around 60% of the economically active population. The magnitude of this phenomenon is impressive not only for its intensity but also for its persistence, leading to...

O objetivo deste artigo é testar empiricamente a relação entre salários e esforço para a indústria brasileira de construção civil. Tal relação é advogada por modelos de salário eficiência, mais especificamente, as versões Shirking Model e Labor Discipline Model. Como a variável...

O objetivo deste artigo é testar empiricamente a relação entre salários e esforço para a indústria brasileira de construção civil. Tal relação é advogada por modelos de salário eficiência, mais especificamente, as versões Shirking Model e Labor Discipline Model. Como a variável...

This paper presents a framework that emphasizes the role of supply and demand factors and the interaction of market forces and labor market institutions, developed by Katz and Autor (1999) and called Supply-Demand-Institutions (SDI). We have applied it for the Brazilian case in the years 1992 to...

Job-Schooling mismatch and wages has received too much attention from developed countries researchers. The last two decades has provided a lot of empirical evidences on the incidence of over and under-education across developed countries in different periods, and returns on ORU (over-education,...

We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...

This paper analyzes the Brazilian case, the transient conditions of employment levels and income distribution in the country, using micro data from the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) produced by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) to assess the effects of macroeconomic...

This paper provides an analysis of the labor market for individuals with tertiary education in Brazil using data from the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence indicates that heterogeneous returns across fields of study...

This exercise contributes to the literature that relates macroeconomic cycle with the labor market, estimating an Favar model to Brazil with four variables - degree of utilization, inflation rate, Selic rate and real exchange rate - and a latent variable that summarizes the state of the labor...

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on the earnings returns to schooling and the consequences of this effect for income inequality in Brazil. The empirical analysis uses data from the 1996 Brazilian Household Survey (PNAD). According to the estimated results, each additional...