Structural changes and labor market in Brazil

Rafael Camargo de Pauli (), Luciano Nakabashi and Armando Vaz Sampaio ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2012, vol. 32, issue 3, 459-478

Abstract: In the present article, we attempt to identify the sources of the changes in the labor schooling level in the three main sectors of the Brazilian economy: manufacturing, services and agriculture. It was verified that, despite the changes in the product and employment among sectors, mainly in the 90s, the relative demands for qualified workers has not experimented significant changes. Moreover, in the periods in which schooling has increased more, the workers’ wage has decreased more. This fact suggests that the increase in labor qualification was mainly due to the increase of this factor supply. The structural changes had contributed, in general, in a marginal and negative way to labor force level of qualification demand in all the three sectors. JEL Classification: F16; I20; J22; J23; J24.

Keywords: labor schooling; structural changes; demand for qualified labor; supply of qualified labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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