Determinantes dos rendimentos dos empregados agrícolas permanentes: uma análise entre o mercado formal e informal entre homens e mulheres

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze separately the wage determinants of employed men and women in both the formal and informal market of the permanent agriculture in the years 2002, 2005 and 2012. The applied methodology was the method of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS ) and the Heckman procedure in order to correct the sample selection bias, which was calculated in two ways: via multinomial logit model and ordered logit model. The data comes from Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). It is analyzed determinants related to human capital, the personal characteristics of the workers and the geographic regions in which they reside. Regarding the results of human capital, it was found that in 2012 there was a reduction of wage differentials of employees in the formal sector with over 8 years of education compared to those with up to 3 years of study. This result was also found for men in the informal sector. It was also found, during the three years of this research, that the informal employees had wage returns higher than formal employees. In what refers to geographic regions, it was found that permanent employees of the agricultural sector of the South, Southeast, North and Midwest generally had higher wages than those in the Northeast (base region) region.