Mobilidade interfirmas e inter-regional de trabalhadores no Brasil formal: composição e determinantes

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the factors that interfere on the mobility of workers through the space. Factors of attraction and repulsion are studied using the Labor Economics to verify the territorial extension of the mobility of workers, having in mind that the literature of Economics of Technology, and its regional approach, emphasize that the mobility of qualified workers is important to transfer tacit knowledge among regions, with strong repercussion on the possibility of regional development. In this dialog, theorical concepts that treat questions linked to the capacity of qualified workers to transfer technological knowledge when they move are established, improving the development. With the use of microdata from RAIS Migra (MTE), a sample of workers employed on the industry are followed eight years long (1995-2002), and the composition of the formal employment in Brazil divided in sectors with different levels of technological intensity are presented. Using multinomial logistic regression models, this paper reveals that the mobility is positively related to the wages, to the male gender and to the educational level of the workers. And it is negatively related to their level of seniority. Besides, all these results are significantly different when the territorial extension of the mobility is considered, what is possible to see through the use of the multinomial methodology.