IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ekm/repojs/v40y2020i4id95074.html

Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the Brazilian labor market

Author

Listed:
  • Lauro Mattei

    (Professor Titular do Departamento de Economia e Relações Internacionais e do Programa de Pós- -graduação em Administração, ambos da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Florianópolis/ SC, Brasil.)

  • Vicente Loeblein Heinen

    (Estudante do curso de Economia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Florianópolis/ SC, Brasil.)

Abstract

This article analyzes the possible effects of the economic crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market. In the first part of the work, recent data from the Continuous PNAD is analyzed to establish a brief overview of the labor market on the eve of the pandemic, highlighting the main trends on the evolution of unemployment and occupation in the different sectors of economic activity, as well as on income from work. In the second part of the study, the measures adopted by the Federal Government with regard to employment and income and their probable impacts on workers are discussed. Finally, the third contains the final considerations of the work, a moment in which it seeks to elucidate the main problems for the workers’ agenda in the face of the new economic, social and political situation in the country. Classificação JEL: J23; J30; J38.

Suggested Citation

  • Lauro Mattei & Vicente Loeblein Heinen, 2020. "Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the Brazilian labor market," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 40(4), pages 647-668, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:40:y:2020:i:4:id:95074
    DOI: 10.1590/0101-31572020-3200
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://periodicos.fgv.br/bjpe/article/view/95074
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://periodicos.fgv.br/bjpe/article/download/95074/88536
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1590/0101-31572020-3200?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
    • J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:40:y:2020:i:4:id:95074. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Cecília Heise (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://periodicos.fgv.br/bjpe .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.