The geographic dynamics of industry employment in Brazilian metropolitan areas

Lessons for São Paulo

Bibliographic Data

ID4368735
AuthorsCiro Biderman (0000-0002-5451-0220, Fundação Getulio Vargas), Marcos Lopes (Fundação Getulio Vargas), Marcos Felipe Mendes Lopes (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Year2015
Volume35
Issue3
Pages492-509
Publication date2015-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0101-3157 • E-ISSN: 1809-4538
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0101-31572015v35n03a07
OpenAlexW2408198711
SciELOS0101-31572015000300492
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

We discuss historic trends in large metropolitan areas in Brazil showing that manufacturing has decreased its share in the country but the movement was, in general, more intense in large metropolitan areas and particularly in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA). This movement was more intense in the 1980s and in the first half of the 1990s. From mid 1990s up to the end of the 2000s, the manufacturing share trend became flat. We speculate that the first period reflects the exhaustion of the process of import substitution that took place in the previous three decades (1950 to 1980). The second period, from 1993 to 2009, is representative of a new model of growth and the evidence that manufacturing share became flat is reinforcing the idea of a new period in terms of manufacturing employment. While concentration has risen from 1996 to 2005, it decreased again in the second half of the first decade of the 2000s. The SPMA reinvented itself very quickly from late 1970s to mid-2000s

Business · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Manufacturing · Metropolitan area · Period (music · Marketing · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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