Pandemia e mercado de trabalho no Brasil: composição e determinantes

Abstract

The pandemic caused several consequences both in the economic and social spheres. In Brazil, in particular, it further aggravated the already existing and profound social, economic, gender and racial inequalities. These inequalities extend to the labor market and, consequently, make the effect of the pandemic on these minorities also different within it. One of these effects is the loss of human capital within the labor market. As a result of this loss of human capital related to the death and/or dismissal of workers, COVID-19 has significantly changed the Brazilian labor market and, therefore, its consequences must be analyzed. Therefore, the objective of this monograph is to show which workers were most affected by the pandemic, illustrating its main characteristics, using data from the labor market, taking into account several particularities of this group (workers) such as race, gender, education and age. With this, it was possible to draw standard characteristics to define, through data from municipalities, the workers who were most affected by the pandemic, with a special look at the labor market. For this purpose, the General Register of Employees and Unemployed (CAGED) was used, which has data on dismissals, admissions, in addition to their causes and information on the workers involved on a monthly basis, with the addition of data from RAIS and the Ministry of Health. As a result, it was found that non-white, low-skilled and younger men were the characteristics that stood out the most in relation to those most affected by the pandemic in the Brazilian labor market.