is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil. Carlos Henrique Corseuil is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil. This chapter is a compiled version of Barros, Corseuil and Gonzaga (1999) and Barros, Corseuil, and Bahia (1999). The authors would like to thank Wasmália Bivar for valuable information about the PIM database. We also would like to thank Carmen Pagés, James Heckman, Rosane Mendonça, Gustavo Gonzaga, Ricardo Henriques, and Miguel Foguel for comments on previous versions of this chapter. Finally, we cannot forget to mention the extreme dedication of our team in IPEA involved in this project, especially

is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil. Carlos Henrique Corseuil is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil. This chapter is a compiled version of Barros, Corseuil and Gonzaga (1999) and Barros, Corseuil, and Bahia (1999). The authors would like to thank Wasmália Bivar for valuable information about the PIM database. We also would like to thank Carmen Pagés, James Heckman, Rosane Mendonça, Gustavo Gonzaga, Ricardo Henriques, and Miguel Foguel for comments on previous versions of this chapter. Finally, we cannot forget to mention the extreme dedication of our team in IPEA involved in this project, especially

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Brazil underwent a large trade liberalization process in the 1990s. Over the period, manufacturing employment decreased significantly, generating public debate on the need to revert liberalization. This paper aims to identify the actual effect of trade liberalization on employment, separating it from exchange rate movements using a gross job flow approach. Our novel dataset covers all sectors and formally registered enterprises, and we use new sector specific exchange rate data. Our estimates suggest that greater openness reduce jobs through increased job destruction, with no effect on job creation, but the exchange rate matters also. Depreciations expand the number of jobs in manufacturing by increasing creation, with no effect on destruction.Trade liberalization, Exchange rate, Gross job flows, Brazil,

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This paper investigates the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization for the Brazilian labour market in the recent period. We present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain this relationship through the dynamics of firms hiring strategies. The main predictions are: the share of formal employment rises as the unemployment rate falls, and that the formal-informal wage gap increases, at least at the beginning of the economic expansion. In the empirical part, we use longitudinal microdata from a Brazilian household survey to check whether these two predictions are confirmed. To a large extent our results corroborate both predictions

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Dossiê JuventuDe e trabalho ResumoO artigo descreve as mudanças nas condições de inserção dos jovens no mercado de trabalho associadas à abrupta mudança no cenário econômico a partir de 2015. Voltamo-nos a aspectos quantitativos relacionados a mudanças no (des)emprego e a qualitativos relacionados ao tipo de ocupação. Por fim, identificamos os determinantes para as mudanças citadas, analisando indicadores baseados em fluxos dos jovens entre diferentes estados do mercado de trabalho.