Ensino superior e mercado de trabalho: evidências da expansão universitária na composição de empregos nos municípios brasileiros

Abstract

In recent years, university expansion has intensified so that the labor market has also changed, a perception identified in municipalities that were welcomed with new university campuses. The objective of this work is to analyze the change in the behavior of the municipalities hosted by the federal public university expansion policy, between 2003 and 2019, seeking to show whether the university is fulfilling its social role in the society in which it operates, promoting improvements in socioeconomic indicators. For this, the difference-in-differences method combined with entropy balancing will be used to create groups of municipalities with similar characteristics. The results achieved bring positive effects for the benefited municipalities, such as an increase in salaries perceived by workers, an increase in the number of jobs for professionals with incomplete higher education and an increase in salaries for white-collar professionals.