Privatização e reestruturação das telecomunicações no Brasil e seus impactos sobre a criação e destruição do emprego

Abstract

This dissertation analyses how restructuring and privatization changed job creation and job destruction flows, as well as job characteristics’ in Brazilian telecommunications sector from 1995 to 2000. Sector restructuring started in 1995 with competition introduced in the mobile segment. The privatization of state-owned local, long distance and mobile companies occurred in 1998, leading to an end a cycle of nationalist policies of self-sufficiency given the sector’s economic, political, and technological importance. Privatization brought strong improvement in the supply of services, reverting a decade of stagnation in service provision. This increase was accompanied by a large drop in net employment driven by a jump in the job destruction rate. On the other hand, competition attracted new entrants, whose high rates of job creation were responsible for leveling the total sector employment back by the end of the studied period.