Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil

This article analyzes the adjustments of the Brazilian labour market over the long term, particularly during periods of macroeconomic crisis, which have spanned more than one third of the last forty years. One of the objectives is to put the various theories of the informal to the test of empirical...

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Main Authors: Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud, Alexis Saludjian
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Language:English
Published: Association Recherche & Régulation 2022-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/21613
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description This article analyzes the adjustments of the Brazilian labour market over the long term, particularly during periods of macroeconomic crisis, which have spanned more than one third of the last forty years. One of the objectives is to put the various theories of the informal to the test of empirical evidence and in particular the hypothesis of its anticyclical role postulated by the dualist thesis. Empirically, our approach is based on an important work of “statistical archaeology” to reconstruct historical series and first-hand processing of millions of observations of micro-data from surveys or administrative records. Our three approaches converge. Among the main findings, we show the tremendous resilience of the Brazilian labour market, which goes down in history, the gradual disappearance since the 1990s of the mechanisms of the “canonical” crisis, supplanted by a process of multifaceted exclusion, as well as the increasing blurring between formal and informal borders, to the detriment of workers’ rights. However, crises are not always the best starting point: for example, the growth phase of the 2000s appears to be the only “transformative” period which left a positive and lasting imprint on the world of work.
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spellingShingle Mireille Razafindrakoto
François Roubaud
Alexis Saludjian
Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil
Revue de la Régulation
Brazil
crisis
covid-19
labour market
informality
long-term dynamics
title Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil
title_full Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil
title_fullStr Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil
title_full_unstemmed Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil
title_short Crises, informalité et reconfigurations du marché du travail : quatre décennies de bouleversements économiques au Brésil
title_sort crises informalite et reconfigurations du marche du travail quatre decennies de bouleversements economiques au bresil
topic Brazil
crisis
covid-19
labour market
informality
long-term dynamics
url https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/21613
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