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Skill concentration and persistence in Brazil

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  • Philipp Ehrl
  • Leonardo Monasterio

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This paper links the past and present regional concentration of skills using the spatial distributions of occupations from the Brazilian censuses of 1872, 1920 and 2010. The data indicate that the concentration of top skills is highly persistent. Multivariate regressions show that regions with a high concentration of industrial and liberal occupations in the past have a high concentration of interpersonal, analytical and cognitive skills today. Moreover, it is observed that skill persistence seems to be positively related to market size. Controlling for natural advantages, the dependence on slave labour and immigration in the past does not undermine the relevance of the historical skill distribution.

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  • Philipp Ehrl & Leonardo Monasterio, 2019. "Skill concentration and persistence in Brazil," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(11), pages 1544-1554, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:53:y:2019:i:11:p:1544-1554
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1585798
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    1. Philipp Ehrl, 2021. "Live large or die young: subsidized loans and firm survival in Brazil," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(6), pages 3479-3503, December.
    2. Rubiane Daniele Cardoso Almeida & Philipp Ehrl & Tito Belchior Silva Moreira, 2021. "Social and Economic Convergence Across Brazilian States Between 1990 and 2010," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 157(1), pages 225-246, August.
    3. Carlos Enrique Carrasco-Gutierrez & Philipp Ehrl, 2023. "Regional Estimates of Residential Electricity Demand in Brazil," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 13(1), pages 465-476, January.
    4. Philipp Ehrl & Leonardo Monasterio, 2021. "Spatial skill concentration agglomeration economies," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(1), pages 140-161, January.
    5. Araujo, Inacio F. & Haddad, Eduardo A., 2024. "Interregional Trade, Structural Changes and Regional Inequality," TD NEREUS 7-2024, Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da Universidade de São Paulo (NEREUS).

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