A Industrialização do Ceará: impactos sobre o emprego e a distribuição funcional de renda na perspectiva kaleckiana

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the effects of changes in the industrial structure in Ceará in the period 1986-2010. We attempted to analyze the impacts on employment and investigate the evolution of the wage share of persons employed in the sector. For this, we used two instrumental methodological, the first was inaugurated by Trejo (1971), estimating the effects of changes in the composition and productivity of industrial sector on employment and the second was to perform calculations of indicators from the approach Kaleckian, with the purpose of analyze the evolution of income distribution in the period described. The recent process of industrial development in Ceará was through an aggressive policy of tax incentives, with the discourse which this position is the safest way to promote income and employment for the state. The study provided an opportunity to understand the problems and the undoing of some of the myths about the recent industrialization of Ceará, namely the efficiency of these measures as a coping strategy of socioeconomic inequalities. We conclude from this study that the tax incentive program (or tax renuciation) is a public policy that benefits a particular class, namely businessmen, because transfers of government funds for the capitalists do not return the same intensity for workers sector. Both the absorption of labor, as the income created by industrial enterprises, proved with limited impact to classthat-makes-a-living-from-labour in the sector.