Trabalho intermitente e em regime de tempo parcial: evidências sobre a variação no emprego, na massa salarial e nas horas trabalhadas nos municípios do Brasil

Abstract

The flexibilization of labor laws in Brazil, which occurred with the 2017 Labor Reform, may promote changes in the labor market. This study aims to analyze the effect of labor market flexibilization in relation to atypical labor contracts, intermittent and part-time jobs, on the wage bill, the mass of hours, and employment in municipalities in Brazil. The economic literature points out that the use of these atypical contracts promotes advances in these three indicators analyzed, although their effect is limited. Using a fixed effects model, the information provided by the RAIS (Annual Report of Social Information) database will be analyzed, with panel data referring to municipalities in the period from 2017 to 2020. The estimated results point out that partial and intermittent employment has a positive, albeit low, effect on employment, wage bill and hour bill.