Transformations in Brazilian labor market during the 2010’s: informality advance in occupational structure.

Abstract

This work investigates some of the transformations that occurred in Brazilian labor market throughout the 2010s, mainly the changes in occupational structure, employing data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Pnad-C), from 2012 to 2019. Historically, this market has shown a high level of segmentation with significant informality. In the early 2000s, Brazil recorded a downward trend in unemployment with an increase in formalization, but from the economic-political crisis (2015-2016) on and with the Labor Reform of 2017, a new inflection has been noticed, resulting in significant changes in the occupational structure, with an increase in informality, precariousness and intra-functional inequality.