Testing the U-shaped female labor participation rate hypothesis in Brazil: the role of structural change
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taxa de participação feminina no mercado de trabalho, desenvolvimento econômico, estimação de dados em painel dinâmico, GMM, BrasilResumo
O objetivo deste artigo é verificar se a hipótese da taxa de participação feminina no mercado de trabalho em forma de U ocorre no Brasil com ênfase no papel da mudança estrutural. Utilizaram-se dados do Censo Brasileiro para os anos de 1970 a 2010 e a abordagem do Método dos Momentos Generalizados para estimar o modelo econométrico. Os resultados confirmaram a hipótese testada, mostrando relação entre desenvolvimento econômico e TPFT emforma de U no Brasil no período. Além disso, os modelos econométricos mostraram que a variável proxy para transformação estrutural é significativa e tem impacto positivo na TPFT.
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