This paper seeks to analyze trends in sheepskin effects and earnings-education relationship on the Brazilian labor market from 1982 to 2004. Using data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (Pnad) are estimated earnings equations including linear years of schooling, and splines and...

Earnings differential between white and black workers present a decreasing trend for younger cohorts in Brazil. We argue in this paper that the reduction in economic discrimination for younger cohorts could have played an important role on this result. Using the Brazilian National Household...

O objetivo deste texto é identificar a sensibilidade da caracterização do trabalhador informal a distintos critérios de classificação e mostrar como a relação entre informalidade e medidas de bem-estar dos trabalhadores varia de acordo com o critério de classificação adotado. Como...

Over the past seventeen years the Brazilian macroeconomic performance has been considerably weaker than in previous decades. Inflation reached unprecedented levels and economic growth declined considerably. Despite the overall perception that macroeconomic performance is closely related to...

Following the inflation stabilization with the Real Plan in 1994, the youthunemployment rate in Brazil increased substantially relative to prime-age adultworkers. We argue in this paper that the increased wage rigid due to inflationstabilization and the employers? uncertainty about young workers...

This paper seeks to analyze trends in sheepskin effects and earnings-education relationship on the Brazilian labor market from 1982 to 2004. Using data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (Pnad) are estimated earnings equations including linear years of schooling, and splines and...

Earnings differential between white and black workers present a decreasing trend foryounger cohorts in Brazil. We argue in this paper that the reduction in economicdiscrimination for younger cohorts could have played an important role on thisresult. Using the Brazilian National Household Sample...

This paper aims to analyze the effects of payroll taxes on the Brazilian labor market. For that purpose, we develop a model of two sectors (formal and informal) and two types of workers. The demand for labor is determined by workers? productivity while the supply side is represented by wage...

For many households in Brazil, a significant share of the income is provided by retirement or pension. We argue in this paper that the high level of income provided by retirement and pension in Brazil could have consequences on young persons` decision about whether to work, and also on their...

During the 90?s the unemployment rate and the household retirement income percapita rose sharply in Brazil. It happened in a more intense way for the unskilledworkers than for the other groups. According to the argument of this paper, theincrease in household retirement income could have...