Mobilidade e consequências de longo prazo do serviço doméstico no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Saito, Katia Tiemi
• Orientador(a): Souza, André Portela Fernandes de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mobilidade ocupacional; Método de variáveis instrumentais
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/1792

Domestic servant is the occupation of the majority of the Brazilian female workers. There are more than 6 million women in this occupation. This study analyzes the occupational mobility of these workers. It examines the impact of having the first job occupation as servant worker in the likelihood of being a servant worker currently. Instrumental variable estimators are used in order to control for the potential endogeneity bias of occupational choices and labor market outcomes. The following instrumental variables were selected: number of schools per child, number of teacher per school and GPD per capita. The results found show that a worker that starts as a servant worker has a higher probability of being a servant worker currently compared to a worker that started to work in another occupation. The IV results are three time stronger than the OLS results, suggesting the existence of immobility such that the starting as a domestic servant leads to an occupational trap. To examine the impact of having the first job occupation as servant worker in current earnings, the OLS results show that a worker that starts as a servant worker earns 13% less compared to a worker that did not start as a servant worker. The instrumental variable estimation has not shown a statistically significant effect. Besides, there were not found statistically significant results when the sample is restricted only to workers that have currently other occupation than being domestic servant. These results suggest that although there is an occupational immobility, there are no earnings differences.