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Abstract

This article examines the occupational insertion of migrants and non-migrants into the labor market in Brazilian urban areas, using empirical evidence from the demographic census. Data on the recent urbanization of Brazil and regional inequality are focused on, in terms of economic decentralization vis-à-vis the process of populational deconcentration. Adding to the debate, this study analyzes the qualification of occupied workers in 1991, in an attempt to test two hypotheses: a) migrants, overall, have a positive influence on sectors of the labor market in important regions that have taken part in the very recent process of spatial deconcentration; b) migrants from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have more experience for urban jobs and are better educated than other migrant workers, serving as a vector for dynamizing the labor market in the cities.