Os determinantes do crescimento econômico regional: um estudo da região da produção do estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The present study objective to determine through the Shift-Share Method the dynamics of the economic growth through the sectoral job in the Região da Produção in the state of the Rio Grande do Sul in the period of 1996 the 2006. For in such a way, it was used of two methods of analysis: the Shift-Share Method and the Method of Input-Output Analysis. The Shift-Share method looks for to describe the economic growth of a region in terms of its productive structure. Through the decomposition of two factors: one of places which had internal order to the advantage - and the other of extern order - for the fact of that the region possess dynamic industries in national level. The Input-Output method is used of the models of general balance for the sectoral exchanges of the regional economy, therefore each sector absorbs inputs of other sectors, beyond producing goods and services that, that in turn, will be used by other sectors to be processed or for a final consumption. The Region of the Production presented positi