FLEXIBILIDADE ALOCATIVA DO MERCADO DE TRABALHO BRASILEIRO: UMA AVALIAÇÃO EMPÍRICA DOS ESTADOS E DAS REGIÕES METROPOLITANAS E NÃO-METROPOLITANAS

Abstract

This article aims to analyze some evidences on allocative flexibility of the labor markets in the states and metropolitan areas and non-metropolitan areas of Brazil, in the period of 1992 to 2001 and 2002 to 2006. The flexibility degree of the regional labor market was estimated from the ratio of turbulence and mismatch indices. It was concluded that labor markets is flexible and it is led by the states of Northwest macroregion. The metropolitan areas has greater allocative flexibility than the inside states. In different economic scales the labor markets is flexible and does not have too much friction