Classes A, B and C were the most suffered from the repercussions of the crisis in Brazil in the first two months of the year. Individuals belonging to this group increased in most, the probability of migration for the poorest of society. According to a survey released this Wednesday (8) by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), between September and December last year the chance of decay of members of these classes for D and E was 2%, that risk jumped to 12 % between January and February of 2009.
The probability of downward migration was even greater for individuals in classes A, B and C employed in the financial sector. According to the survey - which USA based on data from the Monthly Employment Research (SMEs), the IBGE - between September and December 2008 was a 9% chance of falling. In the first two months of 2009, the risk was 13.5%. Similar movement was observed for the employees of the industry, which saw its chances of increasing decline of 2.7% to 4.1% in same period.
"These numbers show that the crisis hit strong among skilled workers and higher wages," says the economist Marcelo Neri, responsible for the study. The risk of shrinkage in the class C puts a check on the car chief of the Lula government, which was the increase of the middle class in Brazil
The month of February has social mobility observed in January. The research shows that classes A and B decreased their participation in the country, as anticipated in the report published last Sunday by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. In December of last year, the share of the richest was 15.3%, to step back in January to 14.91% and 14.84% in February.
The class C, which houses the largest number of Brazilians, lost space in January to December - from 52.81% to 52.64% - but remained stable in February (52.67%). "Another negative aspect concerns the interruption in the movement of people out of classes D and E towards C. In the first two months of the year, these groups were virtually stagnant, respectively, 13.67% and 18.82%," says Néri .
Given this stagnation of the poor, increased social inequality, measured by the Gini index. In the first two months of this year, the inequality presents expansion of 0.55%. Moving inverse to that observed in 2007, beginning the process of expansion of class C, when decrease of 0.16% in the step between rich and poor. Last year, the reduction of differences were even greater: 2.18%.
"It is too early to say that entering a trajectory of growth of inequalities. We have to wait for the numbers in coming months to see how this variable will behave. That will depend on the pace of layoffs and the speed of economic recovery," explains the economist.
Source: State Agency
