Racial inequalities are reflected also in health outcomes (lower life expectancy) and crime (victims of homicide) - Paixao et al. ( In this section, some measures of youth’s transition process from education into work are considered. It is found that Brazilian youth leave education much earlier than their counterparts in OECD countries, while the length of the transition from school to work is about average. The median age of leaving education - i.e. the age at which 50% of youth have left the education system -was 18 in Brazil.