Agglomeration economies, related and unrelated variety in Brazil

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze preliminary results that quantify and qualify specialization and diversification for Brazilian states on the light of regional economics. For this purpose, it was used RAIS (Annual Relation of Social Information, developed by MTE -Ministry of Labor) and input-output tables. We used the Los index as proxy for specialization and the related and unrelated variety for diversification and found that among the states pointed by this index as more specialized we have Amapá, São Paulo, Paran…