Responses to recession and restructuring: Employment trends in the Sao Paulo metropolitan region, 1979-87

John Humphrey

Journal of Development Studies, 1996, vol. 33, issue 1, 40-62

Abstract: It is often argued that during recession women and children are put into the labour market in order to maintain household incomes. They are forced into low-paid jobs in the informal sector. Evidence from Sao Paulo suggests a different picture. During recession young people withdrew from the labour market. Adult female participation rates did increase, but more slowly than the long-term trend. Women's entry into the labour market during recession was not accompanied by a deterioration in employment conditions or a widening of male and female wage differentials. When the economy recovered, it was adult males who did not regain the losses in formal sector employment sustained in the recession.

Date: 1996
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