O movimento de reestruturação da indústria calçadista brasileira e sua influência sobre o salário médio e a produtividade

Abstract

The industrial restructuring of the Brazilian footwear industry due to the crisis in the mid-1990s has led to a migration of companies towards the northeast of the country. This may have influenced the devaluation of the average salary of the workers. Thus, the purpose of the research is to analyze the process of recovering the profitability of the labor intensive industries through the industrial dislocation to less developed regions in order to reduce costs with labor. In order to achieve the objectives, a descriptive research was elaborated, identifying the problem and elaborating a hypothesis to be corroborated through the statistical method. The results made evident the inequalities of average wages and productivity among workers in the Center-South and Northeast Brazil, as well as the increase in the participation of the footwear sector in the Northeast region. The conclusion reached is that the footwear industry has sought to become more competitive by exploiting the wage differences between the regions, and thus to recover its profitability.