Aglomerações produtivas do setor calçadista no Brasil : um estudo sobre a relocalização no período recente

Abstract

The Brazilian footwear sector has gone through a series of challenges since the economic opening that took place in the 1990s. The strategy adopted by the footwear industry was to migrate production to the northeast in search of tax incentives and lower labor costs, creating new Local Productive Arrangements. In this sense, the present work aims to study the relocation of the national footwear industry in the recent period from 2009 to 2019. In order to explain the performance of the sector in the recent period, in this work the Local Productive Arrangements are identified and the number of companies, the number of jobs, production and exports are analyzed. The results found indicate that in the recent period, there was a drop in the number of Local Productive Arrangements, as in the number of jobs and companies. In addition, production and exports also declined.