"Youth unemployment: a study about the dynamics of the Brazilian youth job market" / Desemprego de jovens: um estudo sobre a dinâmica do mercado de trabalho juvenil brasileiro.
AUTOR(ES)
Priscilla Matias Flori
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003
RESUMO
This work has the purpose to analyze the youth unemployment structure in Brazil, trying to identify the reasons for the youth unemployment rate being so superior relative to the unemployment of adults. Despite its importance, this subject has received less attention in the Brazilian labor market literature. In the first analysis of this work, the unemployment rate will be decomposed into two determinants, mean duration and inflow rate for young, adult and old people; it is noticed that the unemployment duration is practically the same for the three categories, but the youth inflow rate is relatively higher than the other two ones, being so, the determinant that makes youth unemployment be higher than unemployment of older workers; and, with a new decomposition of youth inflow rate, it is verified that about 80% of this rate is composed of young people that have already worked. Another method will be the calculus, for young and adult people, of the transition matrices between labor market states. To evaluate where is the problem of Brazilian youth unemployment, it is recalculated these rates for each one of the categories, substituting one at a time in the matrices, the transition probabilities of the other category; results show the high turnover of the category in labor market. With these results, it is concluded that the reason of the high youth unemployment is not the difficulty of finding the first job.
ASSUNTO(S)
brasil brazil inflow rate duração jovens taxa de entrada desemprego duration unemployment youth
