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...

Decisive factors affecting the recent increase in formal employment in Brazil. This paper gives a general overview of the evolution of labour market indicators between 1995 and 2005 in Brazil. It shows an overall increase in formal employment rates from 2001 to 2005, as opposite to what had...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...