Mercado de trabalho e programas habitacionais: evidências do "Minha Casa, Minha Vida" em Salvador

Abstract

Can housing programs offer better socioeconomic conditions for beneficiary families? Or can such policies isolate them in locations further away from the urban environment, harming their performance in the labor market? Such questions represent the challenge of this Dissertation, which proposes to evaluate the exogenous effects on the formal labor market of the main housing policy in Brazil, in a large city in the Northeast region. More specifically, this research uses microdata from the “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” Program (MCMV) in Salvador, exploring the method of random selection of three draws (lottery) carried out between 2016 and 2017. The results suggest that there is a reduction in the probability of presence of the adult individual in the formal labor market and, in addition, a deterioration in the employability of adults after two years of exposure to the program. Among the possible motivations for the reduction of the probability of occupation by the beneficiaries, the literature points to the distance between the economic centers of the city and the housing projects. The contribution of the work is fundamental to expand the investigations of the impacts of the MCMV, since it is one of the first to analyze the lotteries for the context of the Northeast region of Brazil, which has Salvador as its largest capital.