Aglomeração ocupacional na indústria brasileira: potenciais efeitos da pandemia da Covid-19 na composição ocupacional intra indústria

Abstract

This article provides evidence on intra-industry occupational agglomeration patterns in Brazil before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we analyze the intra-industry occupational location quotient for Brazilian macro-regions as suggested by Goldman, Klier, and Walstrum (2019), considering continuous PNAD micro-data for the last quarter of 2019, which precedes the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil, and for the third quarter of 2020. The results suggest that even before the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Southeast region had a more favorable position in the occupational concentration of Industry in general, where occupations requiring higher levels of qualification and complex skills are concentrated in the Southeast region to the detriment of the others, especially the North and Northeast, whose locational quotient was less than one. After the COVID-19 pandemic, in the Northeast region, the locational quotient was maintained for the occupational group of Directors and managers, however, it decreased for the locational quotient of the following occupational groups: Science and intellectual professionals, Technicians and mid-level professionals, and Administrative support workers.