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Abstract
The study analyzes the convergence of the labor productivity
in the Brazilian agricultural sector in the nineties, comparing it with its
productivity in the other sectors and projecting its future behavior through
Markov matrices. The results indicate that the Brazilian states are diverging
in the labor productivity in the agricultural sector. Some states will move
to a high level and others to a low level of labor productivity. In five of the
other sectors of the Brazilian economy there will be a convergence of the
states with regard to the labor productivity. In three of these five sectors
the states will converge to a low level of labor productivity; in one sector
they will converge to two classes of low productivity and in another sector
the states will move to a class of high productivity. The time required
for convergence of the Brazilian states is very long; indicating that the
economic factors prevailing during the period on which the analysis is
based did not impact very strongly on this process.