Labour market transformations in the era of new technologies: an analysis by regions, gender and industries in Brazil.

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dc.article.end-page32
dc.citation.doi10539-33455
dc.contributor.authorTessarin, Milene Simone
dc.contributor.authorMorceiro, Paulo Cesar
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-15T11:40:32Z
dc.date.availableAugust 2022
dc.date.issued2022-11-15
dc.departmentSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.description.abstractThe impact of new technologies on the workers is the subject of intense debate. However, a deep analysis of the global South qualifying their regions’ inequality is rarely addressed. We evaluated the Brazilian formal labour market, unpacking disparities according to regions, manufacturing sub-sectors, and gender. First, we created a compatibility table of the occupation list provided by Frey and Osborne (2017) and the Brazilian occupations list to identify the occupations with a higher and lower digitalisation risk. Second, we elaborated a granular view of such occupations using different dimensions (five regions, 23 industries, three technological groups and gender). Third, we analysed the employment change between 2011 and 2019 to promote a comprehensive view of the drop in employment in the past decade. Results showed that most jobs in the Brazilian manufacturing sector are in occupations at high risk of digitalisation but that there is substantial heterogeneity regionally, sub-sectorally, by gender and for all region-gender-sub-sector combinations. The proportion of women workers is smaller than the proportion of men in almost all sub-sectors, but they are concentrated in labour-intensive, low-tech sub-sectors more susceptible to digitalisation. The employment drop between 2011 and 2019 was most significant in occupations with higher digitalisation risk and even more pronounced among women in all regions. Public policies need to be adjusted to the various existing heterogeneities in the global South. It is necessary to explore the synergies between educational, regional, social and science-and-technology policies to balance the impact of new technologies on formal jobs.
dc.description.librarianSeipati Mokhema
dc.description.sponsorshipSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Witwatersrand
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationTessarin M.S. and Morceiro P.C. 2022. Labour market transformations in the era of new technologies: an analysis by regions, gender and industries in Brazil. Future of Work(ers) SCIS Working Paper Number 32, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University Of The Witwatersrand.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/33455
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.54223/uniwitwatersrand-10539-33455
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.id0000-0003-2922-8335
dc.orcid.id0000-0002-9548-0996
dc.publisherSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.relation.ispartofseries32
dc.schoolSouthern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)
dc.subjectDigital Labour Platforms
dc.subjectGig Economy
dc.subjectInequality
dc.subjectRegional inequalities
dc.subjectManufacturing
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectWorkers
dc.subjectNew technologies
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectDigitalisation
dc.titleLabour market transformations in the era of new technologies: an analysis by regions, gender and industries in Brazil.
dc.typeWorking Paper
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