This paper attempts to analyze the process of deindustrialization under a regional aspect. The loss of relevance of the manufacturing sector, as measured by percentage of GDP or total employment, is not neutral in spatial terms. Using the Rais database at the geographical level of micro regions,...

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...