Lucir Reinaldo Alves Ph.D. Student at Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa

Eduarda Marques da Costa

Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Centre for Geographical Studies, Universidade de Lisboa.



The present paper has the ambition to discuss the role of employment in innovative sectors and their relation with employment qualification structure and their contribution to productive restructuration. ◦ Other objectives:  To present the specialization profile and the performance of the socioeconomy;  To what point the main important sectors are composed with high qualification jobs and the evolution in the productive restructuration.



Variable: employees

◦ Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS) from the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MTE). ◦ Microdata from the IBGE censuses of 2000 and 2010.



Sectorial Analisys according to OECD/Eurostat:



Locational Quotient (LQ)

POij = Employed people, in the sector i from the region j (Toledo city)

POtj = Total people employed in the region j (Toledo city)

POit = Employed people, in the sector i from Paraná State POtt = Total employed people, in Paraná State. 

The formula for calculating the location quotient (LQ) is:

LQ 

POij / POit POtj / POtt

140.000 120.000

↑ 73% in the period from 1970 to 2010 ↑ 21% in the period from 2000 to 2010 90.74% living in urban areas

119.313 108.259

100.000

98.200

94.879

85.920

81.287

80.000

72.402

68.885 60.000

53.845 43.029 38.258

40.000

22.477

20.000

15.040

12.280

11.054

0 1970

1980 Rural

1991 Urbana

2000

2010

Total

Chart 1 - Population, urban and rural total in the municipality of Toledo - 1970/2010

40.000

From 2000 to 2010 Secondary sector:

↑ from 44.01% to 46.06%

1.080

↓ from 52.33% to 51.17%

35.000

Tertiary sector:

30.000

The city of Toledo can be considered as a strong industrial base municipality.

1.082

25.000

10.339 7.597

20.000

713

15.000 631 10.000

5.000

12.357

145

941

6.849

4.667

6.857

2.157 371 4.504

0 1985

2.875 327

5.661

6.181

1990

1995

Industry

Construction industry

1.457

846 3.344 591

5.295 2.289 314

5.390

16.503 13.019

7.988

2000 Trade

Services

2005

2010

Primary Sector

Chart 2 - Employees by sectors of the city of Toledo - 1985/2010

Source: Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS) from the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MTE).

Source: Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS) from the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MTE).

* there was a widening of basin of jobs in Toledo

From 2000 to 2010 From 41 to 75 the number of cities of origin of workers in Toledo The most significant cities in 2000 were: - Ouro Verde do Oeste with 156 - Cascavel with 149 - São Pedro do Iguaçu with 130 - Assis Chateaubriand with 102. In 2010: - The city of Ouro Verde do Oeste passed to the category of above to 500 with 563 people working in Toledo - Municipalities with more than 100 employees increased, namely: * Cascavel with 449 * São Pedro do Iguaçu with 416 * Assis Chateaubriand with 264 * Vera Cruz do Oeste with 224 * São J. das Palmeiras with 180 * Marechal C. Rondon with 174 * Tupãssi with 106



The results showed the existence of productive restructuring signs in Toledo city in the first decade of the XXI century. ◦ The restructuring model presented by this municipality is based on a reference of mediumsized city that established itself as a regional center and with development of specializations that include of high qualification intensive sectors and those with undifferentiated work.



Toledo has consolidated some specializations and increasing the participation of other sectors in its productive structure. ◦ There has been a positive dynamics of the industrial sector, this dynamism is also reflected in the service sector.  In the industrial sector, we highlight the low-tech activities as the industrial sector employer when considering the absolute values.  Moreover, the sector of high-tech industries has increased strongly its share of total employees and boosted the qualification structure in the city.



The consequences of this process are mainly the reorganization of the labor market region, with enlargement of the areas of exchange and influence, in other words, the municipality has been capturing labor of their surroundings to meet a growing demand of productive sectors.  With this the full migration - people who come to reside in the city searching for a better quality of life and job - and the commuting migration - those people who move to the city daily / weekly - have increased in recent years.



Considering the various perspectives, the dynamism presented by Toledo in recent years represents: ◦ 1º) a segmentation of the slaughtering and preparation of meat and fish products sector, with labor-intensive and takes advantage of the proximity to the necessary production inputs; and ◦ 2º) the growth and affirmation of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry with high capital investment and innovation.  In both sectors the biggest companies came to the city, means that they are exogenous capital.



Toledo is more and more are evolving to configure as medium-sized city that attracts and segments the capital and with this expands its regional division of labor, with a territorial reorganization of the economy and of persons directly or indirectly involved in these sectors, consolidating a microregional dynamic system around Toledo, configuring a new territorial productive structure.

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