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Labor
market, intermediation and social networking
2. Functional and special study
of labor supply and demand in the Metropolitan Area of
São Paulo (MASP): 1989/2003.
The
last 15 years have witnessed important changes in the labor
force of metropolitan Sao Paulo. There has been a continuous
increase in the level of education, fewer young people in
the ranks of the unemployed, more female and fewer migrants
in the labor force, especially in the heart of the metropolis.
Business
demand for labor has also changed dramatically, reflecting
structural changes in economic activities developed in
the area: technical-productivity restructurings, domestic
and even formerly State owned companies pursuing international
strategies, strong shifts in occupations from manufacturing
industry to services and trade. All of these changes have
been accompanied by a sharp rise in unemployment and an
increase in non formal occupations.
Research
tries to go beyond interpreting the result of this data
as a set of shifts between the secondary and tertiary
sectors - which could cloud very relevant sociological
factors, such as the fact that inter-sector migrations
do not mean the same thing for all professions, or that,
in many cases, merely shifting jobs from industry to the
service sector may not wipe out the effect of this shift
in a process of accumulation of joblessness that still,
to a large extent, is a phenomenon of manufacturing industry.
Coordinator: Alvaro A. Comin
Research team: Márcia Lima, Idenilza Miranda, Alexandre Abdal e Bruno Kawaoka Komatsu
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