Industrialization and Formal Employment: Empirical Evaluation in Ceara State vis-à-vis Piaui State - from 1998 to 2008

• Published in: Informe GEPEC Vol. 15; no. 3; p. 184
• Main Authors: Luís Abel da Silva Filho, Silvana Nunes de Queiroz, Adriano Olivier de Freitas e Silva
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Toledo Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Grupo de Pesquisa em Agronegocio e Desenvolvimento Regional 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Employment; Industrial development; Socioeconomic factors; Piaui Brazil; Brazil; Ceara Brazil
• ISSN: 1676-0670; 1679-415X

This paper seeks to compare the profile of the processing transformation industry in Ceará and Piauí in 1998 and 2008, besides analyzing the socioeconomic characteristics of their workers. For this, we consider the number of industrial establishments, the distribution of employment by sector, the number of workers per sector of manufacturing industry, the number of employees by establishment size, gender, age, education level, length of service, full pay, average wage by education level and average earnings by sector of manufacturing industry. Data are from the List Annual Social Information (RAIS) of the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE). By comparing with Ceará to Piauí, the objective is to analyze the recent dynamics of the labor market in these states, which traditionally listed among the poorest in the country. As a way to improve their socioeconomic and demographic indicators from the early 1990s, Ceará and Piauí follow adopting policies of fiscal incentives to attract industries to their Units of the Federation. The main results on the one hand, are positive and indicate that between 1998 and 2008, Ceará and Piauí were benefited with respectively 3678 and 876 industrial units, which enabled the opening of new formal jobs. Moreover, the data show that these jobs are precarious at both FUs, characterized by high turnover, low wages, and high selectivity by gender, age and education.