LOW-WAGE WORKERS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF PORTO ALEGRE AND SÃO PAULO: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Authors

  • Raul Luís Assumpção Bastos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1676-4439.2018v17n2.44624

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the low-wage workers in the Metropolitan Areas of Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil, in the period 1995-2014. The author uses, as an empirical reference for the measurement of low-wage workers, one of the definitions found in the international literature, according to which those correspond to employees who earn less than two-thirds of the median hourly wage of the economy. The study provides evidence of a fall in the relative share of low-wage workers in the Metropolitan Areas of Porto Alegre and São Paulo, in the period 1995-2014. According to the proposed interpretation, this reduction was influenced by the institutional regulation of wages, more precisely by the growth process of the real minimum wage, which was also correlated with the increase of the wages on the base of the wage structures, which were compressed, as indicated by the evolution of different measures of wage dispersion.

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Published

2019-02-23

How to Cite

Bastos, R. L. A. (2019). LOW-WAGE WORKERS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF PORTO ALEGRE AND SÃO PAULO: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Revista Da ABET, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1676-4439.2018v17n2.44624