Setor Educação e Sua Importância Econômica Para o Paraná Education sector and its economic importance to Parana

Focusing on the short run, as the objective, this research scaled the economic importance of the Public and Commercial Education like sectors, in Parana, in 2006, regarding the employment and income creation, broken down according to employees school profile. Through the input-output analysis together with the information contained in Regional Matrix of Parana in 2006 and in National Household Sample Survey (NHSS), the study showed the results: i) the total of employed people in Parana in 2006, 5.6 million, 79.4 %, were divided between those who went through primary and secondary school; ii) the average wage of the workers group with education equivalent to Masters was 240% higher than the average wage of workers in the Middle school; iii) creation of employment and income showed the importance in the sector, Public and Commercial Education, together, would generate 8.5% of total employment and 9.7% of total income in Parana.