Infraestrutura de transportes e a alocação das atividades econômicas: um estudo do PROACESSO em Minas Gerais

Laísa Dias and Rodrigo Simões
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Laísa Dias: IE-UFRJ
Rodrigo Simões: Cedeplar-UFMG

No 476, Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG from Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract: This article analyzes how investments in transportation infrastructure made by the PROACESSO program affected employment and wages of the municipalities of Minas Gerais, using data on employment and earnings from 2000 to 2010. For this, we use a differences-in-differences strategy that explores variations in the time that the municipalities received investments of the program. First, we discussed how investments in transportation infrastructure can have adverse effects on the peripheral regions. Next, we analyzed the program´s impact on local employment and wages. The results indicate that the greater accessibility favored industries that sell to other locations (industry) and buy inputs produced elsewhere (trade and industry) but hurt the service sector which suffers from increased competition of more diversified and competitive services produced in central locations.

Keywords: transport; infrastructure; economic development; Minas Gerais. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L98 O18 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2013-04
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