Adapting to Climate Change: Long-Term Effects of Drought on Local Labor Markets

Paulo Bastos, Matias Busso and Sebastian Miller

No IDB-WP-466, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in conjunction with five waves of population census data spanning 1970-2010. Results from a difference- in-differences design reveal that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural sector; leads to job losses and pay cuts in the local manufacturing and services sectors; and induces out-migration, especially among younger cohorts, leading to relative population de- cline. These findings are in line with standard general-equilibrium theory featuring imperfect labor mobility across space.

JEL-codes: J61 N96 O15 Q54 R11 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12
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