Occupational polarization?: understanding the role of occupation in the Brazilian labor market / Polarização ocupacional?: entendendo o papel da ocupação no mercado de trabalho brasileiro

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the role of the occupation in the Brazilian labor market, examining its effects on individualswage and employment and on the wage structure of the Brazilian economy. Despite its importance, this subject has received little attention in the inequality literature in Brazil. In the first part of this study, the data are described for the six occupations that will be used - managers, professionals in sciences and arts, technicians, white collar workers, services workers and production workers. The occupation that employs most workers is services workers. But it is also the one that has the highest amount of low education individuals and with the lowest earnings. Through the use of an inequality decomposition technique, it is verified that occupation has as high explanatory power as education. The second part of the dissertation analyzes the wage premium associated to each occupation, after controlling for individual fixed effects, and investigates what happens with the wage variation of the individual when it transits among occupations. The results show that the occupation that attracts more workers is managers and the highest wage losses occur when a worker transits to the services workers occupation. Since occupation is important to explain inequality, in the last part it is investigated how the occupational structure of the Brazilian labor market evolves over time, verifying if technology can affect this structure. Evidence is produced showing employment growth for occupations that pay intermediate or high wages. With these results, it is concluded that occupation has important effects in the labor market in Brazil.

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emprego salários wages employment

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