Atividade econômica da população com 60 anos ou mais no Rio Grande do Sul e o impacto sobre a composição das rendas domiciliares.

Abstract

This research presents an analysis about the participation of people who are 60 years or older in the economically active population and its impact on the composition of the per capita household average income, in Rio Grande do Sul State and its regions. The regional division chosen includes the mesoregions defined by the Brasilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, 2000), which divided Rio Grande do Sul State in seven mesoregions. Another goal of this study was to verify the association between the economic development of the mesoregions and participation of people who are 60 years or older in the economically active population. A comparison was made between the rates of participation of elderly people and its impact on the households incomes in Rio Grande do Sul State, and, also, in each one of its mesoregions. The per capita Gross Intern Product, the Human Development Index, the urbanization rate and the Gini Index were used as control variables. Descriptive and explicative methods were applied in this study. Secondary data were used having as source the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, 2000), the Foundation of Economics and Statistics (FEE, 2000) and the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA, 2000). The unit of analysis is composed by the 467 counties of Rio Grande do Sul State in the year of 2000. It was found that Rio Grande do Sul is the State with one the highest life expectations on birth in Brazil. It was observed, through the regression analyses, that the rate of participation of people with 60 years or older in the population explains partially, and only in some mesoregions, the household average income.