Comportamento heterogêneo da educação na desigualdade setorial da renda: uma análise para o Brasil, nordeste e sudeste nos anos 2004 e 2013

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze, to Brazil, Northeast and Southeast, the determinants of wage inequality of employed people in three sectors of the economy: Agriculture, Industry and Services. The current study considered the main sources of generation and reproduction of inequality in the labor market heterogeneity of workers, segmentation and discrimination. The database used was the data from the National Survey for Domicile Sample (PNAD) in 2004 and 2013. For this purpose, it was used the method of Cowell and Fiorio (2011) which joins the decomposition by factors, already discussed by Shorrocks (1982 ) and Fields (2003), with the decomposition by subgroups. The results showed that the contribution of education to inequality does not occur heterogeneously between sectors and regions. In the Northeastern and Brazilian agricultural activity, the labor market tends to generate inequalities with more intensity than reproduce, as the variable formality was the one that best explained the inequality within the agricultural sector, while in the Services and Industry, the education was more important than the variables linked to segmentation and discrimination in the labor market. In the Southeast, education plays a more homogeneous role, being the primary contributor to the inequality of the three economic activities.