Unemployment and its diagnosis today in Brazil

ABSTRACT In the 1990’s, the end of the growth of the employment has been featured of several forms by the inquiries on employment and unemployment in the Brazilian metropolitan areas. While the Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego (PME-IBGE) presents a low level of unemployment, the Pesquisa de Emprego e Desemprego (PED-Seade/Dieese) shows the manifestation more intense of the phenomenon. The indicators produced by these inquiries have supported different diagnostics on the problem of employment in the nation. This paper analyzes as the indicators produced by these inquires support the specifics diagnostics on the problems of employment and as they subsidize different proposals of employment policy.