Essays on the effects of unequal distribution of work among families in Brazil
polarization of labor supply; poverty; young; families without work.
This dissertation is composed of two articles. In the first article, it is verified how families without work explain the composition of the poverty rate, in the period from 2012 to 2019. To this end, using data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), the polarization index was calculated , the poverty rate of families and, finally, their decomposition. The findings indicate that part of the increase in polarization results in an increase in the real rate of family non-work, while the variation in the poverty rate comes mainly from variations in the percentage of poor families without work. In the second article, we investigate the effect of jobless households on the results for young people in the labor market, from 2012 to 2019, using data from the PNAD Contínua. The results point to the presence of an effect of families without work on the income of young people, for men, on their probability of working and presenting an age-grade gap, for women and men.