Perfil educacional da mão de obra do Estado de Pernambuco: como ocorre a absorção do capital humano nos setores da economia de Pernambuco no período de 2006-2016

Abstract

The Theory of Human Capital was formalized in 1961 by Theodore W. Schultz, the term human capital was used by Shultz for the first time in publishing the paper Investment in Human Capital, thus recognizing the skills and knowledge acquired by an individual as a form of capital. With the end of Second Great World War, nations are focused on economic growth and development. Education is understood as an important element in achieving this goal. But even without its formalization this important factor was already perceived by several scholars, for example Adam Smith was already recognized in his work The Wealth of Nations published in 1776. The concept of human capital was being perfected with the development of specific economic theory. Studies such as that of Pereira (2008), analyze the importance of the level of schooling of workers for the economic growth of the Northern region of Brazil, arriving at the conclusion that an average increase in the years of schooling tends to reduce the differential in the distribution of income among the inhabitants. To contribute to this debate, this paper aims to present the educational profile, according to the level of education of the workers, absorbed by the economic sectors in the state of Pernambuco over a decade. To do that, we use the RAIS data that quantify the level of schooling, absorption of schooling in the various sectors and information on average remuneration for each level of education for the years 2006, 2010 and 2016. Based on the used data, that the theoretical evidences occur in the context of the state of Pernambuco. It is observed that there is a change in the absorption of the educational level during the analyzed period. It has also been concluded that there are wage increases when there is a higher level of schooling.