Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
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Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
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MODERNIZATION PATHS AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, 1985 - 1996

Angela Kageyama; Eugenia T. Leone.

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Abstract

Using multiple factor analysis, this paper describes the path of agricultural modernization followed by the Brazilian states between 1985 and 1995/6. It also tries to identify the relations between this path and the evolution of employment in the Brazilian agricultural sector. Multiple factor analysis is a technique that provides a description of a complex phenomenon by weighing the different groups of variables in a uniform way, thus avoiding the error of allowing a particular group to alone determine the first principal direction of the global analysis. The results indicate that there are five different modernization paths, and all have a verylimitedcapacitytoimprovethelevelofemploymentinBrazilian agriculture.

Keywords

Brazil, agriculture, modernization, employment, factor analysis.

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08/03/2001

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20/08/2001

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