Na segunda-feira 26/11/2018 às 15hs na sala k7, o PPGECON realizará o seminário do seguinte artigo: "Can Workforce Recruitment Programs affect Local Labor Markets? Evidence from a Physician Program" de autoria de Bladimir Carrillo (Viçosa) e Breno Sampaio (UFPE)

RESUMO:

In this paper, we estimate the effects of a large-scale physician recruitment program on employment and wages of local physicians. Under this program, the Brazilian federal government directly recruit, finance, and allocate physicians across municipalities. Our identification strategy combines the program’s intensity across municipalities with the timing of the program in a difference-in-differences framework. Our estimates indicate that the program significantly reduces local physician employment and earnings. Since the vast majority of recruited physicians come from abroad and are financed by the central government, these effects are likely the result of changes in local governments’ hiring decisions. These findings provide suggestive evidence that federal employment grants can distort the behavior of local governments and affect labor market prospects of incumbent workers.