This paper tries to quantify the impact in job creation and import-export balance of the brazilian industrial chains growth, by utilization of input-output brazilian matrixes, from 1985 to 1996. The main conclusion is that to create more jobs is necessary greater economic growth rates, while the...

The structure introduced by Armington (1969) has been used to analyze trade policy in partial and general equilibrium models. The Armington elasticities, the degree of substitution between domestic and import goods are known to be important, but are seldom estimated empirically. Therefore, we...