Banca de DEFESA: JEFFERSON DOGLAS DA SILVA PEREIRA

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STUDENT : JEFFERSON DOGLAS DA SILVA PEREIRA
DATE: 17/02/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabildiade
TITLE:

WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN BRAZIL: THE IMPORTANCE OF AGGREGATION ECONOMIES AND SPATIAL SORTING OF WORKERS AND FIRMS

KEY WORDS:

Agglomeration economies; Wages; Sorting; Match worker-firm; Regional disparities

PAGES: 110
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Economia
SUBÁREA: Economia Regional e Urbana
SPECIALTY: Economia Regional
SUMMARY:

The spatial interaction between economic agents in the Brazilian labor market can result in increases in productivity for both firms and workers, increasing their revenues. Given the greater availability of paired worker-firm microdata, as the data used in this study, extracted from the RAIS (2010-2018), it is possible to advance in the control of unobserved heterogeneities of both workers and firms. There is a consensus in the literature that the spatial sorting of workers and firms is an important source of explanation for wage differentials. The objective of this study is to measure the effects of agglomeration economies on individual wages in the formal Brazilian labor market from 2010 to 2018, controlling the effects of the spatial sorting of workers and firms, and the match worker-firm on wages. In this sense, this dissertation aims to control these possible sources of bias in estimating agglomeration effects on wages. In addition, this dissertation seeks to control the bias resulting from the match worker-firm in the local labor market areas. In view of the great regional disparities in Brazil, this study also aims to analyze how the effects of agglomeration economies on wages behave among Brazilian regions and among different sizes of Labor Market Areas (LMA), thus providing evidence that can assist in the strategic planning of public policies directed to the labor market. Based on a panel data structure that follows the worker over the period from 2010 to 2018, this study uses panel data models that allow estimates for multiple fixed effects. Besides, this study used the method of estimation by instrumental variables to control the possible endogeneity between employment density and wages. The results found in the main model of this study point to a net effect of agglomeration economies on wages of around 1.69%. In addition, the results provide unprecedented evidence of the impact of agglomeration economies in the wages determination wages in each of the Brazilian regions and in each size of the local labor market areas. In general, the results found in this dissertation point to the relevance of the spatial sorting of workers and firms and of the match worker-firm in determining LMA wages in Brazil.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1623372 - KEULER HISSA TEIXEIRA
Interno - 1870794 - ANDERSON MOREIRA ARISTIDES DOS SANTOS
Externo à Instituição - RAUL DA MOTA SILVEIRA NETO - UFPE
Externo à Instituição - ADELSON SANTOS DA SILVA - UFRPE