Recursos do FAT e empregos gerados ou mantidos: estimativas para a atuação do BNDES entre 1996 e 2017

Abstract

The contributions of the Workers’ Assistance Fund (a Brazilian fund destined to support the labor market and workers, FAT) achieved relevant participation on BNDES’ funding. This paper seeks to evaluate to what extent the use of Constitutional FAT resources by BNDES between 1996 and 2017 contributed to job generation and job maintenance during the implementation of fixed capital investments. It was used an input-output model of the Brazilian economy of the year 2005, built from the country’s system of national accounts and the input-output matrix. The main estimates were a 10 million direct and indirect jobs created or maintained between 1996 and 2017, as a result of the R$ 662 million disbursed for fixed capital. The main investing sectors as well as the sectors in which the jobs were estimated are also analyzed in the paper.