LABOR AND TRANSPORTATION
Brazil’s bedroom cities trade hours on the road for bigger paychecks
Millions of people who work in state capitals live in other cities. Photo: Paulo Pinto/EBC
About 3 million people in the metropolitan areas of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, and Porto Alegre cross a municipal line each workday to get to work. The figure comes from sample microdata of the 2022 Census, which IBGE, Brazil's statistics agency, recently released to researchers under controlled access. The data trace those flows, and the people behind them, in unprecedented detail…
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