Alteração do perfil do empreendedor de micro e pequenas empresas no Brasil durante a pandemia

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic showed how little Brazilian micro and small entrepreneurs have support through public policies, which are essential for the maintenance of their companies. Thus, tracing the profile of the entrepreneur during this period helps to understand how actions to promote the economy and social policies can be carried out for this audience, in order to generate jobs in small businesses and keep micro-enterprises in full operation. The present work aims to detect how the impacts of the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic affected the profile of micro and small entrepreneurs in Brazil from the quarterly data of the National Continuous Household Sample Survey (PNADC) for the year 2020 compared to to the profile found between 2015-2019. Thus, data such as sex, age, race, education, having or not the company's CNPJ and the company's earnings were analyzed. In order to analyze the data, the method of an exploratory analysis was used, in order to indicate the evolution of each profile over the quarters. As a result, we found that there were changes in the profile of the entrepreneur during the pandemic, among them the main ones were the increase in the regularization of the CNPJ of companies and the decrease in the income of micro and small entrepreneurs over the quarters.