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Infraestrutura de transportes e a alocação das atividades econômicas: um estudo do PROACESSO em Minas Gerais

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  • Laísa Rachter de Sousa Dias

    (IE-UFRJ)

  • Rodrigo Ferreira Simões

    (Cedeplar-UFMG)

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This article analyzes how investments in transportation infrastructure made by the PROACESSO program affected employment and wages of the municipalities of Minas Gerais, using data on employment and earnings from 2000 to 2010. For this, we use a differences-in-differences strategy that explores variations in the time that the municipalities received investments of the program. First, we discussed how investments in transportation infrastructure can have adverse effects on the peripheral regions. Next, we analyzed the program´s impact on local employment and wages. The results indicate that the greater accessibility favored industries that sell to other locations (industry) and buy inputs produced elsewhere (trade and industry) but hurt the service sector which suffers from increased competition of more diversified and competitive services produced in central locations.

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  • Laísa Rachter de Sousa Dias & Rodrigo Ferreira Simões, 2013. "Infraestrutura de transportes e a alocação das atividades econômicas: um estudo do PROACESSO em Minas Gerais," Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG 476, Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdp:texdis:td476
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    Keywords

    transport; infrastructure; economic development; Minas Gerais.;
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    JEL classification:

    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • L98 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Government Policy

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