Interfirm mobility of workers in the Brazilian formal labour market: composition and determinants

Abstract

This paper analyzes the main factors that motivate the inter-firm mobility of workers in the Brazilian formal labor market, emphasizing the possibilities of inter-firm knowledge diffusion. Using micro-data from the Labor Ministry of Brazil (Rais-Migra), we present the composition of the formal workforce according to educational degree, gender and sectors with different levels of technological intensity. Based on a fixed effects logit model, we find that mobility is positively related to the expected wage level and to the seniority level. On the other hand, the length of tenure after mobility is negatively related to the mobility propensity.