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Minding The Gap Between BRAZILIAN EMPLOYEES & BRAZILIAN EMPLOYERS
by Luisa de Azevedo & Adriana Fontes | by Danielle Carusi Machado & Cecilia Moreira Borges
December 2010—For Brazil’s labor force, the Brazilian economy is a mixture of security and insecurity. While employers across sectors provide security in the form of salary supplements, nearly a third of Brazilian workers still experience wage discrimination as well as great insecurity from the country’s informal, unregulated economy.
| BRAZILIAN EMPLOYEES | BRAZILIAN EMPLOYERS |
As risky as the informal economy may be, low-educated Brazilians may see it as the only means of overcoming widespread wage differences. Inequalities in wage include:
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Supplements from employers across industry sectors provide security for Brazilian workers. Supplements include:
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| Currently Brazilian youth are the most vulnerable to the informal economy, with rates of unemployment much higher compared to the entire population--21% for those between the ages of 15-24, compared to 7.2% for adults aged 25-49, and 3.9% for adults aged 50+. Over the past decade the Brazilian government has created policies focused on the employment of youth, particularly those whose family income is less than half the minimum wage per capita. | |
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