O Setor de papel e celulose brasileiro: uma análise sob a ótica da avaliação social do ciclo de vida

Abstract

Given the continued growth of the Brazilian pulp and paper industry, it is necessary to study the quality of the jobs generated by it. Thus, in this study, the Life Cycle Social Analysis (ACVS) was used in order to analyze the fair wage and equal opportunities / discrimination in the sector. In both articles, the secondary data extracted from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD), prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) for the year 2015, were used for the construction of the Social Life Cycle Inventory, the Stata 14 statistical program was used to carry out the analyzes. In the first article, the aim was to apply the methodology of fair wage potential throughout the paper life cycle. The following socioeconomic aspects were considered: gender, color or race, formality, associativism and schooling, aiming to improve the fair wage potential methodology. It was noticed that the majority of the workers in the north and northeast of Brazil, in the Forestry sector, forestry and services related to these activities, have a low potential of fair salary, according to all socioeconomic characteristics considered. In the second article, the objective was to analyze whether gender and color or race wage discrimination exists in the Brazilian pulp and paper sector, more specifically between the agricultural and industrial area of this sector. For this, the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition was used, in order to introduce a technique widely used to study discrimination in the ACV-S. It was observed that there is evidence indicating that the difference in the return of productive characteristics (discrimination) is the main responsible for the wage difference in the sector. It is in the industrial area that discrimination is likely to account for most of the wage differential, whether gender, color or race.