Labor structural changes in the regional economy of the Southwestern region of the Parana State in Brazil in beginning of 21st century

• Main Authors: Jandir Ferrera de Lima, Paulo Henrique de Cezaro Eberhardt, Daiana Carolina Gentilini, Augusto Luiz Heck
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora Universitária Champagnat 2009-12-01
• Series: Urbe : Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana
• Subjects: Regional economics; Regional analysis; Urban economics; Parana economics
• Online Access: http://www2.pucpr.br/reol/index.php/URBE?dd1=3411&dd99=view

The aim of this article is to analyze the structural changes in the economy of Southwest Region of Parana State in Brazil. To measure changes in production structure, with respect to the occupation of labor was used indicators of regional analysis. This is a Parana Southwest Region of recent settlement, whose agricultural frontier has run out in the 1970s. It is also considered one of the poorest regions of Parana State and suffered the impact of agriculture modernization, but still retains strong duality in rural development. There are in the Southwest of Parana State two cities more developed than the other: Francisco Beltrao and Pato Branco, but this development is not as expressive as in the cities of the Western Region of Parana State, which has in Toledo, Cascavel and Foz do Iguacu cities, a development much more than the other municipalities.