Economic sectors evolution and education: An analysis of the metropolitans regions of belo horizonte and são paulo

The article aims to analyze the dynamic of the economic sectors of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo, through the prism of their demands for skilled labor and unskilled labour. In our view, to analyze the skill requirements of the economy by the composition of the workforce, its expansion or withdrawal, increase or decrease in intra-sector amount of education, provides a more comprehensive view of the production process and its relationship with the educational needs, since we will not focus on the individual and their human capital or the economy as a whole aggregate, but combining these perspectives. The share of education of the employees and the income of them are proxies for the performance of the regional economy. We seek to understand the institutional construction that shape economic sectors and how this impacts on the demands of today's skill requirements. The labour market and the economic sectors of the two regions under consideration have different demands and economic features that make important to study their characteristics in comparative way. The two regions are extremely relevant for the Brazilian economy and show an interesting feature of it: a region with a dynamic industrial and financial sector, Sao Paulo, and a region that depends of the export of commodities and great employment by the real state, Belo Horizonte. So, in a same country, and in different states, we find different models of development, different labour markets and different dynamic economic sectors. The methods and materials are logistic regression models, to have the odds of being in an economic sector by schooling, and the official data of employment of the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Brazil, covering the years of 1986-1990 and 2006-2010.