Rio de Janeiro – Municipalities with a tourist vocation or that excel in the production and export of commodities are contributing to the reduction of unemployment in Brazil, reveals a survey conducted by the National Confederation of Trade of Goods, Services, and Tourism (CNC). The survey analyzed the 5,570 municipalities in the country, from which a selection was made of cities that employ at least 10,000 formal workers. The result found covered more than 660 municipalities.
“We analyzed municipality by municipality how employees’ stock evolved,” Fabio Bentes, an economist from CNC, said. From July 2020, when the General Registry for Employed and Unemployed (CAGED) started to post positive balances, after the first wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, until February 2022 was considered.
In a ranking of the 20 municipalities that generated the most job openings, the CNC researchers noted that 15 of them are tourism hubs or commodity-producing and exporting hubs. “Out of the 20, ten are tourism, such as Porto Seguro (Bahia), Araruama (Rio de Janeiro), Balneário Camboriú (Santa Catarina), among others.” In terms of commodities, municipalities with mining activities predominate.
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According to the survey, Canaã dos Carajás (Pará) was the municipality with the highest positive variation of occupations in the formal labor market during the period: 66%, equivalent to the creation of 7,370 jobs. The four cities in the following positions of the ranking are places with a tourist vocation: Porto Seguro (pictured above), Vacaria (Rio Grande do Sul),; Araruama (Rio de Janeiro), and Ipojuca (Pernambuco). Other highlights are Pederneiras (São Paulo), and Santo Antônio de Jesus (Bahia), where sugar and citrus production predominate, respectively.
According to Fabio Bentes, the conclusion is that the effect of the economic recovery after the most acute phases of the pandemic favored municipalities that produce commodities and, in the case of tourism, the sector that suffered most in the pandemic, it was observed that it is the one that has recovered most evidently. “It was the one that suffered the most during the pandemic, but in compensation, and precisely because of this, it is the one that has the most potential for regeneration of the labor market,” said Fabio Bentes.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
