This is the third in a series of four notes that report the results of the study The Dynamic Nature of Employment and Income in the Legal Amazon carried out under the Amazon 2030 project (AMZ 2030). The study includes a detailed discussion of the economic vitality of the Legal Amazon based on the identification of occupations and sectors that have recently (2012-2019) contributed most to employment and income generation in the region. The work uses data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua – PNAD-Contínua) conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística – IBGE) and expands on the research on the dynamics of the Labor Market in the Legal Amazon, which began the series of AMZ 2030 publications. In this note, we present the results of the study as they pertain to the service sector in the Amazon region.
An in-depth analysis of the evolution of the service sector shows that: (i) in contrast to the low growth trajectory of total employment in the region, the service sector experienced a significant rise – in fact, the absolute variation of employment in the service sector was higher than the variation for the entire Legal Amazon between 2012 and 2019; (ii) in the “services” occupations, the “salespeople” category stood out the most, showing exceptional growth rates; (iii) the highest level of dynamism in the service sector was concentrated in people who have completed at least upper secondary education, at the expense of a retraction in the employment of people with lower educational attainment, thus reinforcing income inequality in the region. This situation shows that the region’s economic dynamism occurs mainly in urban activities, which are not related to the forest.
Vocational Education in the Legal Amazon is suboptimal. Faced with a particularly challenging job market for young people, the low representativity of technical raining in the region’s workforce has made it even more difficult for workers to enter the workforce. This study, produced by researchers from the Amazon 2030 project (AMZ 2030), reveals
Whilst Brazil has largely overcome the challenge of poor provision of elementary education – with numbers close to the total number of children enrolled in primary education and increasing enrollment rates in early childhood education and secondary education -, the Legal Amazon still faces difficulties in access to education, particularly in early childhood
This is the fourth in a series of four notes reporting the results of the study entitled The Dynamic Nature of Employment and Income in the Legal Amazon developed under the Amazônia 2030 project (AMZ 2030). The study deepens the discussion on the economic vitality of the Legal Amazon, based on the identification
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