O Crescimento econômico no Ceará foi a favor dos mais pobres? evidências comparativas com o Nordeste e o Brasil a partir do desempenho do mercado de trabalho nas zonas urbanas, metropolitanas e rurais.

Abstract

The article makes two contributions for the empiric literature about the economy of the state of Ceará. The first refers to the analysis of the relationship between the economical growth and the behavior of the distribution of income. Following Kakwani, Khandker and Son (2004) we then obtain the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate (PEGR), a measured of the pro-poor growth. The second is, using methodology of Kakwani, Neri and Son (2006), the quantification of the social welfare generated from the labor income and the corresponding decomposition in tax of job, number of hours worked for person, tax of participation of the labor force and productivity - the decomposition of the productivity in scholarship, return per year of study and redistribution of this return among the families. Using data of PNAD/IBGE, this study concentrates on the period after Real plan of stabilization and contemplates evaluation for geographic area. This way, is determined the acting of the economical growth and of the job market in Ceará metropolitan, urban and rural and it is made comparative analysis with similar geographic area of the remaining of Brazil and of the Region Northeast.