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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil

Author:	Chomitz, Kenneth M.; da Mata, Daniel; de Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata; Magalhaes, Joao Carlos;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3752
Country:	Brazil;	Date Stored:	2005/10/17
Document Date:	2005/10/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Latin America & Caribbean
Report Number:	WPS3752	SubTopics:	Achieving Shared Growth; Economic Theory & Research; Labor Markets; Economic Growth; Municipal Financial Management
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than one-third lived in apparently dynamic municipios, experiencing both real wage growth and faster-than-average employment growth. These areas absorbed more than half of net employment growth over the period. To elucidate this spatial variation, the authors estimate spatial labor supply and demand equations describing wage and employment changes of Brazilian municipios. They use Conley's spatial GMM technique to allow for instrumental variable estimation in the presence of spatially autocorrelated errors. The main findings include: (1) a very strong influence of initial workforce educational levels on subsequent wage growth (controlling for possibly confounding variables such as remoteness and climate); (2) evidence of positive spillover effects of own-municipio growth onto neighbors' wage and employment levels; (3) an exodus from farming areas; (4) relatively elastic response of wages to an increase in labor supply; and (5) evidence of a local multiplier effect from government transfers.


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