Silva, Everlândia de Souza; Silva, Diana Lúcia Gonzaga da; Rocha, Roberta de Moraes
Resumo:
This article provides evidence on patterns of occupational agglomeration in Brazil and its locational factors. The literature shows that occupational agglomeration can result from positive externalities in the labor market associated with the sharing of similar skills. In this study, the externalities associated with sharing mechanisms will be measured from a labor pooling indicator, when considering workers' skills. For the proposed analysis, individual microdata from RAIS are used for the period from 2009 to 2018. The empirical strategy uses the fixed effects estimator in a panel data model to identify the effect of labor pooling on occupational agglomeration in Brazil. The results suggest that labor pooling has a positive effect on occupational clustering, when controlling its interaction with skills, but its magnitude is lower than the effects of isolated skills. In addition, evidence shows heterogeneous behavior for the labor pooling effect, classified by workers' skills.
