Agência Brasil
Rio – Following two straight months of negative results, industrial employment in Brazil grew 0.4% in January, compared with the previous month. The increase is even greater when compared with January, 2004: 3.2%. The overall annualized figure for the 12 preceding months also registers an upward trend, with the index rising from 1.8% in December to 2.2% in January.
Only two of the 14 regions surveyed failed to present an improvement in the rates of hirings versus firings, compared with January, 2004: Rio Grande do Sul (-1.2%) and Rio de Janeiro (-1.0%). These data are contained in the Monthly Industrial Employment and Salary Survey, released yesterday (16) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
