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Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment : Evidence from Brazil

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  • Bezerra De Goes, Carlos Andre
  • Canozzi Conceicao, Otavio
  • Lara Ibarra, Gabriel
  • Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys

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What is the environmental impact of exports? Focusing on 2000–20, this paper combines customs, administrative, and census microdata to estimate employment elasticities with respect to exports. The findings show that municipalities that faced increased exports experienced faster growth in formal employment. The elasticities were 0.25 on impact, peaked at 0.4, and remained positive and significant even 10 years after the shock, pointing to a long and protracted labor market adjustment. In the long run, informal employment responds negatively to export shocks. Using a granular taxonomy for economic activities based on their environmental impact, the paper documents that environmentally risky activities have a larger share of employment than environmentally sustainable ones, and that the relationship between these activities and exports is nuanced. Over the short run, environmentally risky employment responds more strongly to exports relative to environmentally sustainable employment. However, over the long run, this pattern reverses, as the impact of exports on environmentally sustainable employment is more persistent.

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  • Bezerra De Goes, Carlos Andre & Canozzi Conceicao, Otavio & Lara Ibarra, Gabriel & Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys, 2025. "Exports, Labor Markets, and the Environment : Evidence from Brazil," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11172, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11172
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