Affiliation:
1. Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil
2. Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil
Abstract
This paper discusses the role played by the recent Brazilian Labour Reform
(BLR) in conditioning the level and the rate of growth of employment, value
added and productivity in the Brazilian economy from 2017. Our main findings
are that after BLR, the share of informal employment, value added and
productivity increased, as well as those shares in low productivity sectors.
Furthermore, we show that the employment created in low-productivity sectors
(formal and informal) were moved to high-productivity sectors in the years
after the implementation of the 2017 labour reform, the aggregate levels of
value added and productivity would have been much higher than otherwise.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance