Trade and Labour Market Dynamics in Brazil’s (Kupfer et al.)

Different partners, different patterns: trade and labour market dynamics in Brazil´s post-liberalisation period by David Kupfer, Marta Castilho, Esther Dweck and Marcelo Nicoll published by OECD. “This paper seeks to evaluate to what extent the greater external exposure of the Brazilian economy in the past decade has contributed to the evolution of employment in the country…The paper finds that Brazilian exports expanded vigorously in the 2000s and contributed positively to employment generation, though this contribution was relatively small. Largely as a consequence of technological change and shifts in the composition of trade, the jobs created by exports only amounted to about 15% of those created by domestic demand and the export-related jobs were predominantly low skilled jobs.”