The paper analyzes the participation of Brazilian elderly in the labor market from 1977 to 1998. This analysis is different from traditional labor market analysis as the main focus is not with the pressure that elderly can put on the labor market. The objective is to look at their participation...

The question addressed in this paper is how families with elderly living in are organizing themselves to face populational ageing, a major children economic dependency and the reduction of the role of the State. Are they "empty nests"? Co-residence and elderly increase in family size may be a...

The paper analyses the Northeastern youth and elderly life conditions. It considers as a background the stable life trajectory experienced by the elderly in their prime comparable to the instable one that the youth are experiencing nowadays. This consideration takes into account their...