Necessidades juvenis, trabalho políticas públicas: um estudo do Programa Nacional de Estímulo ao primeiro emprego

Abstract

This thesis discusses the needs of young people in relation to the goals of a public policy of the Brazilian federal government called First Job National Program (PNPE). It intends to check what are the program’s strengths and weaknesses and in which manner it should be improved. The PNPE aims at inserting the youth in the labor market. Its results, however, have fallen short of what had been expected from it, according to information given by its main implementation agency, the Labor and Employment Ministry. This thesis has the purpose of understanding the program’s difficulties from the point of view of its target group, viz. the young people themselves. If this public policy is able to address the needs of its target group, it will provide spaces of participation and democratization. At the same time, it will be able to achieve better results. This thesis is a qualitative research and its data was collected in the municipality of São Leopoldo, state of Rio Grande do Sul. It includes interviews made with y