The Impacts of the Brazilian Labour Reform on Employment, Output, and Labour Productivity

Authors

  • Claudio Roberto Amitrano Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil
  • Alanna Santos de Oliveira Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil
  • Gabriel Coelho Squeff Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN2304647A

Keywords:

Brazilian labour reform, Employment structure, Value added and productivity levels, Informality

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. 

JEL: E24, J46, J50, J65, J83, O40

 

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Published

2023-07-14

How to Cite

Amitrano, C. R., Santos de Oliveira, A., & Squeff, G. C. (2023). The Impacts of the Brazilian Labour Reform on Employment, Output, and Labour Productivity. Panoeconomicus, 70(4), 647–669. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN2304647A

Issue

Vol. 70 No. 4 (2023): 34th Annual EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy) Conference 2022

Section

Original scientific paper