Public servant wages represent a significant part of Brazilian state governments’ current expenses. Based on the literature, this paper has tried to identify which states practice efficient, compensatory or appropriation wage politics through the estimation of public-private wage...

One of the major reforms the Cardoso administration is committed to handle is to change Brazilian public administration from a bureaucratic to a managerial system. The emergence, in the nineteenth century, of a bureaucratic public administration replacing patrimonialist structures represented a...