Impacto da expansão das universidades federais sobre o mercado de trabalho entre 2002 e 2019

Abstract

The goal of this work is to evaluate the impact of the creation of Brazilian Federal Universi- ties campi in new municipalities on labor market indicators between 2002 and 2019. For this

purpose, it was used the matchingacombined with a difference-in-differences estimator, with ̆ fixed effects in municipalities and whose specification allows the observation of heterogeneous effects according to the length of adherence. The results obtained show an increase in wages, in the percentage of employed people with higher education, and in the number of firms per capita, accompanied by the number of exposure Years. Albeit positive, the outcomes for wages diminish their level of increase by the ninth year, which can indicate the workforce stabilization in the municipality.