O desenvolvimento do programa emergencial de manutenção do emprego e renda no município de Codó –MA

The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of PEMER on the labor market in the city of Codó-MA. To this end, secondary data from the Ministry of Economy were used in the databases of the Labor Statistics Dissemination Program. The data collected were analyzed using the descriptive statistics technique. Among the main results, it was found that the program hadmore than 3,000 agreements from April 2020 to August 2021, the period in which the agreements were signed, excluding the months of January, February and March 2021. Of this total, 38% were cases of suspension of employment contracts, 64.59% of the agreements were from employers in the commerce sector, there was a prevalence of 34.56% of employees aged between 30 and 39 years, and there was heterogeneity in relation to the gender of the employees who signed agreements in Codó. Therefore, based on these findings, it is possible to conclude that PEMER had a positive impact on the municipality by effectively contributing to the maintenance of jobs during the pandemic.