Desempenho recente do mercado de trabalho brasileiro: 1992-2005

Abstract

This study aims at describing the behavior of the Brazilian labor market between 1992 and 2005. This period comprises significant changes in the economic scenario, in the midst of the process of opening the economy to adjust to the prevailing international economic order. In the one hand, the paper focuses on the time evolution of the main labor market indicators, trying to identify trends and stylized facts. On the other, it em-phasizes aspects related to spatial patterns, particularly in terms of the metropolitan versus non-metropolitan behavior.