Nothing impacts the welfare of individuals and households more directly than employment and earnings opportunities. In developing countries, labor market reform is a crucial component for the success of overall economic policy reforms. Despite success in other areas of economic reform over the...

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Labor Reform in Latin America during the 1990s -- PART I: Public and Private Sector Labor Markets in Brazil -- 2 Improving Public Sector Efficiency in Brazil -- 3 Assessing the Impact of...

Recent changes in public employment in Brazil generate costs to workers that leave this sector. In this study we investigate the wage loss that leaving public employees may experience if they were absorbed by the private sector. Using microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de...