As flutuações do emprego formal em Manaus: 1995-2005

Abstract

The 1990 is considered a milestone in the economic history of Brazil. The structural changes experienced by changes in economic policy, especially trade liberalization, had provided positive and negative impacts to the Brazilian society that even today, are important objects of study. The working class, without a doubt the most exposed to effects of the changes, felt the weight of these changes throughout the process of economic integration of the country to the new world order. This dissertation analyzes the formal labor market in Manaus, from the second half of the nineties until the year 2005. The overall goal is to issue an assessment of the dynamics of this market, looking for clues to identify the relationship between this and the dynamic behavior of some macroeconomic variables such as exchange rates and fluctuations in gross domestic product of Amazonas. The theoretical analysis contains underlying concepts of business cycles, the determinants of labor market and its factors, as well as the rates of job creation and destruction. The method of analysis, we opted for an adaptation of procedures established by Davis and Haltiwanger involving the estimation of rates of creation and destruction of jobs and their derivations from the stock of employees in the sectors and subsectors of the economy Manaus. In addition, we used the turbulence index or index of structural change and some descriptive measures. The results, with the instrumental analysis of the abovementioned factors, concluded that the formal labor market dynamics of Manaus has a relatively differentiated and more intense in terms of rates of creation and destruction of jobs and hence reallocation of posts work than the national economy, which may represent, from a certain point of view, something positive for the Amazonian society, particularly for the working class