O crédito oficial e o emprego: uma avaliação quali-quantitativa em micro e pequenas empresas de Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

This research aims at contributing to the knowledge and comprehension of the work characteristics generated by the micro and small enterprises (MSEs), formalized from the debate under the relevance of the segment to generate jobs. Especially considering that formal work is the one that guarantees the social benefits to the workers. The focused MSEs are formalized enterprises located in Fortaleza-CE that had access to credit in a federal financial institution, more specifically the Northeast Bank of Brazil (BNB). It has been utilized the quali-quantitative methodological approach, aiming, through mix methods, to establish a complementarity among the given information – by one side, through the secondary data and theoretical inputs and, by the other side, the different points of view of the actors involved – internally or on the environment of the MSEs. There have been applied non-participant observation techniques and deep evaluation on the gathering and analysis of the representations by the actors involved in the segment’s enterprises. Therefore, there has been searched a contribution to understand the credit relations, the kind of jobs generated by the MSEs, workers´s life conditions, as well as other related phenomena.