This work investigates movement between the states of the labor market - occupation, unemployment and inactivity - and the duration of unemployment in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, between 1997 and 2001, using panel data from IBGEs Monthly Employment Survey (PME). Among the individual...

Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) é um programa de transferência condicionada de renda (PTC), que visa garantir um nível mínimo de renda para as famílias pobres e, ao mesmo tempo, promover o acesso das crianças beneficiárias aos serviços de educação e saúde e fornecer assistência social...

The Bolsa Familia Programme (PBF) is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme which is aimed at guaranteeing a minimum level of income to poor families and at the same time promoting access to education and health services by beneficiary children, and to social assistance more generally by...

The objective of this study is to assess the implications of Brazil?s conditional cash transfer programme, the "Bolsa Familia" Programme (hereinafter the ?PBF?), for the Decent Work Agenda. The Decent Work Agenda first emerged in a report by the Director-General of the ILO in June 1999. Decent...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impacts of openness on employment and wages, taking into consideration two crucial aspects. The first, related to labor demand, refers to an increase in the relative employment of less-skilled workers. With Brazil being a developing country with abundant...

This article evaluates the relationship between scientific and technological production and the degree of human development in Brazil, on a municipal level. The variables used can be divided into seven groups: human development index, urban infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, incentives...

The relation between dynamics of poverty and labor market includes some issues as what conducts certain poor groups to escape of this condition and what induces other groups to enter in the poverty. Seeking to analyze these issues, the purpose of this article is to investigate the relation...