Abstract:
The main purpose of this paper is to study employment impacts of tradable sectors in Brazil. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to examine these impacts and to obtain important disaggregated results, as we are able to recognize six types of skilled labor by sector. From these results employment multipliers can be obtained to identify strategic employment generating sectors in the Brazilian economy. Moreover, usual input-output analysis implemented and the results compared. The CGE approach is implemented as a short-run scenario where investment in fixed; traditional employment input- output multipliers regard a long- run environment.
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