Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the Brazilian labor market

Lauro Mattei () and Vicente Loeblein Heinen ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2020, vol. 40, issue 4, 647-668

Abstract: This article analyzes the possible effects of the economic crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market. In the first part of the work, recent data from the Continuous PNAD is analyzed to establish a brief overview of the labor market on the eve of the pandemic, highlighting the main trends on the evolution of unemployment and occupation in the different sectors of economic activity, as well as on income from work. In the second part of the study, the measures adopted by the Federal Government with regard to employment and income and their probable impacts on workers are discussed. Finally, the third contains the final considerations of the work, a moment in which it seeks to elucidate the main problems for the workers’ agenda in the face of the new economic, social and political situation in the country. Classificação JEL: J23; J30; J38.

Keywords: Pandemic; unemployment; informality; social protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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