Continued social and economic progress in Brazil will depend on high employment, sustained labor productivity and income growth, and opportunities for the poor

Brazil’s public-sector wage bill is comparatively high. It grows inertially and competes with other spending. Rightsizing the wage bill could stimulate admini

Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise unemployment, and end up being circumvented by

We document the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market focusing on employment, wages and hours worked using the nationally rep

Using nationally representative, economywide data, this paper investigates the relative importance of trade-mandated effects on industry wage premia; industry a