Evolução das ocupações no mercado de trabalho tocantinense e o processo de concentração das atividades produtivas entre 2001-2009

Abstract

Understanding the dynamics of employment is an important matter in economic policy-making. Through the decades 1990 and 2000, Brazil and, more precisely, Tocantins, have undergone major transformations. On the national scene Brazil experienced a substantial process of trade liberalization in the 1990s. During the period, employment decreased significantly. Meanwhile, the state of Tocantins was going through a peculiar time: the beginning of its path, marked by the creation of the capital, Palmas, which attracted thousands of migrants from different states. These factors make the labor market stand in constant moving. Hence the need to draw a map of the labor market in order to facilitate the understanding of the dynamics of the state. To measure and qualify the degree of mobility of the labor market, flow statistics such as reallocation of employment are calculated. The analysis of the concentration's degree of establishment or employment ties to a particular sector is drawn from the calculation of locational Gini Coefficients. This paper has as objective to analyze the evolution of occupations in the formal labor market of Tocantins and the concentration's process of production activities between years 2001 and 2009 through an approach workflow. The data used for analysis of the formal labor market in Tocantins were taken from data from the Ministério do Trabalho e do Emprego (MTE), through Relação Anual de Informações Sociais (RAIS). The results indicate that the reallocation of employment in Tocantins is not high, but heterogeneous. Sectors such as commerce and services do not present relocating employment in excess, ie., there was not job turnover in these two sectors. The mining sector is the highest responsible for the relocation of employees and turnover of jobs in the state. Lastly, we have that there is a concentration of productive activities, between 2001 and 2009 in Tocantins in almost all sectors and this concentration occurs around the highway, BR 153, where are the most important cities of the state.