This paper investigates the impact of changes recorded between 2002 and 2009 in the urban labor market in Brazil on the workers, taking into account its segmentation into groups resulting from the intersection of the dimensions of age, sex and education. In it we make a brief analysis of the changes observed in these seven years in the socio-demographic profile of the population of working age to, then, investigate the levels of occupation, unemployment and the formalization of the various segments of workers defined from those variables .To that end, we constructed and analyzed a set of indicators, based on data from the National Survey by Home Sampling (in Portuguese, PNAD), that account for labor market insertion of young men and women, adults and elderly according to education level and the new settings of the labor market that emerge in the expansionary cycle of the economy over the last seven years.
labor market; age; sex; education; forms of integration