Perfil dos trabalhadores e diferenciais de rendimentos: setor formal versus informal no Brasil

Abstract

Although informality has shown a decline in recent years in Brazil, it remains a problem in the labor market. In addition to affecting Social Security income, in general, the informal sector presents worse employment conditions and lower wages compared to the formal sector. Through the PNAD database, the objective of this study is to analyze the profile of formal and informal workers through descriptive statistics, observing the years 1995, 2005 and 2015. It also aims to verify the existence of a differential between formal and informal sector earnings for the year 2015, as well as to examine the differentials between incomes of the two sectors. Such returns in formal and informal workers' earnings are estimated using the Ordinary Least Squares method. The results showed that formal workers have a positive differential in wages compared to informal workers, and it is important to note that the greatest differences observed were for the variables years of study and sector of activity, in relation to the determinants of the income of these two sectors.