Banca de DEFESA: VALERIA OLIVEIRA PONTES ALENCAR DE CARVALHO

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STUDENT : VALERIA OLIVEIRA PONTES ALENCAR DE CARVALHO
DATE: 04/08/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência via PPGDem/UFRN
TITLE:

SURVIVAL AND MORTALITY OF INDIVIDUAL MICROENTREPRENEURS (MEI) IN THE MESOREGIONS OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, 2016 – 2020.

KEY WORDS:

Individual Microentrepreneur, business demography, entrepreneurship, mortality table.

PAGES: 102
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Demografia
SUMMARY:

Brazil is simultaneously experiencing an unprecedented health, political, economic, and environmental crisis, resulting in high unemployment rates and a high number of workers in the informal market. In this context, the figure of the Individual Microentrepreneur (MEI), characterized as an autonomous professional with rights and obligations of a legal entity, is growing. However, studies point to a high mortality of the MEI in the country. Therefore, this dissertation has as its main objective to investigate and expand the understanding of the demographic dynamics of the Individual Microentrepreneur (MEI), in the four mesoregions of Rio Grande do Norte, based on their mortality, survival, and to trace the sociodemographic profile of the MEI figure. For this, data provided by SEBRAE/RN and Portal do Empreendedor (Entrepreneur's Portal) were used mainly. The findings of this dissertation show differences between the mesoregions of RN with regards to economic development, characterizing the Eastern and Western mesoregions as the most developed, and the Agreste and Central mesoregions with less economic dynamism. This difference was ratified by the number of companies opening, showing the meso East as the leader in all the years under study, followed by the meso West, Central, and Agreste. Regarding the socio-demographic profile, the results show a higher percentage of MEI in the age bracket between 31 and 40 years, more men, and a predominance of Brazilians in all the mesoregions. Regarding the economic activities performed by MEI, it was possible to see differences in the division between men and women, with specific activities for each sex. Regarding life expectancy, the results were coherent with the development of each mesoregion, since the more prosperous mesoregions present higher life expectancy at age 0, and the less developed ones have lower life expectancy, but present the same upward trajectory until age 14 and stability as of age 15. The study also analyzed the discourse of the MEI to decrease informality and unemployment, however, the data shows that despite the growth in the number of companies, these numbers do not reflect a significant decrease in the unemployment rate and the informality rate in RN. Finally, it is concluded that the MEI is an entrepreneur by necessity, seeking to combat problems with social/regional inequality, unemployment, poverty and abandonment of the role of the State as a generator of jobs, along with the private sector.

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Interno - 1422122 - JÁRVIS CAMPOS
Interno - 1688188 - MOISES ALBERTO CALLE AGUIRRE
Externo à Instituição - PAULO RICARDO COSME BEZERRA
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