Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/220307 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 219
Publisher: 
Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea), Brasília
Abstract: 
Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless, is it possible to discuss such a role without debating the collective actors engaged in that bargaining? The answer is probably no, at least with respect to labour actors (unions), which face several problems. There are thousands of unions in Brazil, spread by every economic sector, professional branch and region of the country. At a first glance, this would seem very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile constituency, with few workers in their social base, as well as a small affiliation among them. As a result of this frail constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some structural (and historical) changes seem necessary, in order to get more representative and effective unions in Brazil.
Subjects: 
labour regulation
collective bargaining
unions
JEL: 
J50
J51
J59
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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