Rio de Janeiro – Employment level in the Brazilian industrial sector has risen for the second consecutive month, having posted growth of 0.7% in July, compared with the previous month, according to a survey by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The survey shows that the variation was the highest since May 2004, when the expansion rate was 1%.
According to the IBGE, between July 2007 and July 2008, there was an increase in number of job positions in 13 out of 18 sectors surveyed, the highlights being the sectors of machinery and equipment (12.3%), means of transportation (9.6%), machines, electric and electronic, and communications devices (11.6%) and chemicals (11.1%).
Out of 14 regions surveyed, 11 have recorded growth in number of employment positions. The best performances were those of the state of Minas Gerais, with growth of 6.6% in job generation, compared with July last year, followed by the state of São Paulo (4.3%) and the North and Midwest Regions (2.8%). On the other hand, there were reductions in the number of workers in the states of Pernambuco (-4.4%), Santa Catarina (-1.1%) and the Northeast Region (-0.3%).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
