This article presents an overview of the principal results of research on the impact of the minimum wage on the Brazilian labor market. The effects of the minimum wage on employment, wage levels, and poverty are analyzed, as is the relationship between the minimum wage and the government...

This paper aims at contributing to the debate regarding the role of the minimum wage in Brazil. This is carried out by assessing its potential effects on the labor market outcomes, as well in terms of poverty alleviation and fiscal impact. First, a succinct description of the institutional...

The paper argues that the form in which collective bargaining is organized might be a decisive factor in determining the performance of modern industrialized economies. The whole literature on corporatism is concerned with showing that the degree of centralization and coordination in wage...

The purpose of this report is to document the scale of uncovered employment in Brazil and to describe the trends in this phenomenon at least since the transition to democracy in the late 1980s. Micro-data obtained from annual Brazilian household surveys from 1992 onwards are used to model the...