O processo de ruptura estrutural na economia regional paranaense

Abstract

This research analyzed the structural rupture process of Paraná regional economy, between 1985 to 2012. It searchs to understand the process of growth, transformation and diversification of the regional economy of the State of Paraná, and analyze the changes in the structure of the economy and how micro-regions and economic sectors behaved and influenced the development of micro-regions. The theoretical contributions was used to discuss how regional development happens and how economies develop and make changes in their sectoral structures. Completing this line of study, was used as methodology, the methods of regional analysis through tracing vital statistics and regional measures, the variable bas was the formal employment which could show the hand of behavior of the labor over the analysis period and it was possible to diagnose the moment that the process of structure breakdown has occurred in the micro-regions of Paraná. The results demonstrate that the State of Paraná has done important changes in their sectoral structure. In the analyzed period, from 1985 to 2012, most of the state's micro-regions showed hard concentration of formal employment in the primary sector of the economy. Therefore, it proves that this sector continues to be representative to the state and that some of the micro-regions had not passed or completed their structural rupture process. However, in relation to the structural rupture process, it was detect that some micro of Paraná had a strong concentration of formal employment in the secondary sector before 1985, showing that its structural rupture process occurred in the previous period. In 1992, there was the spreading of the secondary sector leading the process of structural break for the latest occupations areas. So, it concludes that, for the State of Paraná, the tertiary sector has contributed with the rupture process, because it understands that many tertiary activities emerge as auxiliary secondary of the primary activities. Regarding the productive restructuring the biggest changes occurred at the first period 1985/1999, after this, the production restructuring decreased intensity in the state of Paraná. Therefore, it understands that the knowledge about the characteristics and configuration of economic sectors in geographic micro-regions of Paraná contributes to the government in carrying out activities that can improve the economic organization of the spaces, as well as for society in decision-making, contributing for the development of the state as a whole.