School and work: elements to discuss youth in Brazil

Abstract

Brazil is living a demographic bonus. Considering the relationship between school and work, the biggest challenge posed by the demographic youth bonus consists in better qualifying such a group of youth and articulating this qualification with employment policies that can support development cycles in the next decades, in a country that walks to a fast process of population ageing. Based on a synthetic dataset of national scope, this paper presents a brief picture of the main education and work policies developed in Brazil in the last fifteen years. Finally, it exposes the impasses around such policies, as well as the main challenges that await us from now on.