Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness

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Autor(a) principal: Castro,Nicole Rennó
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Barros,Geraldo Sant’Ana de Camargo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
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Resumo: Abstract This study analyzes the interactions between per worker labor income (PWLI), labor productivity, real unit labor costs, and the relationship between relevant employee (IPCA) and employers (GDP deflators) prices, specifically focusing on Brazilian agrobusiness. For that purpose, labor productivities of the entire agrobusiness sector and its segments were calculated from 2004 through 2015. We found that the gap between agrobusiness sector deflators and the IPCA did not play a preponderant role to mitigate the effect of PWLI growth of 3.81% annually on real unit labor cost (CURT), which only increased 0.21% annually. In turn, CURT was contained by productivity gains, boosted mainly by agriculture. Without this productivity growth, CURT would have increased at 3.7% annually, thus making unviable the observed simultaneous gains for employers and employees in the Brazilian agrobusiness sector. The result for the primary agrobusiness segment should be highlighted. Even with an annual increase of 4.07% in PWLI, the 7.24% annual growth in productivity implied on an average annual reduction in CURT (-2.56%); without this significant productivity growth, the same increase in PWLI would have boosted CURT by 4.7% annually.
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title Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
spellingShingle Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
Castro,Nicole Rennó
agrobusiness
labor productivity
unit labor costs
relative prices
title_short Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
title_full Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
title_fullStr Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
title_full_unstemmed Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
title_sort Increasing labor income and real unit labor costs in Brazilian agrobusiness
author Castro,Nicole Rennó
author_facet Castro,Nicole Rennó
Barros,Geraldo Sant’Ana de Camargo
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Castro,Nicole Rennó
Barros,Geraldo Sant’Ana de Camargo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv agrobusiness
labor productivity
unit labor costs
relative prices
topic agrobusiness
labor productivity
unit labor costs
relative prices
description Abstract This study analyzes the interactions between per worker labor income (PWLI), labor productivity, real unit labor costs, and the relationship between relevant employee (IPCA) and employers (GDP deflators) prices, specifically focusing on Brazilian agrobusiness. For that purpose, labor productivities of the entire agrobusiness sector and its segments were calculated from 2004 through 2015. We found that the gap between agrobusiness sector deflators and the IPCA did not play a preponderant role to mitigate the effect of PWLI growth of 3.81% annually on real unit labor cost (CURT), which only increased 0.21% annually. In turn, CURT was contained by productivity gains, boosted mainly by agriculture. Without this productivity growth, CURT would have increased at 3.7% annually, thus making unviable the observed simultaneous gains for employers and employees in the Brazilian agrobusiness sector. The result for the primary agrobusiness segment should be highlighted. Even with an annual increase of 4.07% in PWLI, the 7.24% annual growth in productivity implied on an average annual reduction in CURT (-2.56%); without this significant productivity growth, the same increase in PWLI would have boosted CURT by 4.7% annually.
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