According to Sinaval, the shipbuilding industry had 82,472 workers in December 2014, 57,048 in 2015 (month not given) and 43,745 in the first half of 2016, a drop of 7,331 positions in the half-year.
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Source: Queda no barril do petróleo, corrupção e Lava Jato desmantelam indústria naval — Brasil de Fato, Jan. 5, 2017 · News report of January 5, 2017, employment section · open original ↗
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Limitations: Data from the employers' union, reproduced by a news report; Sinaval's methodology (formal employment? RAIS/Caged?) was not verified. In 2000–2013, according to Ipea cited in the article, formal employment in shipbuilding ranged from 1.9 thousand to 71 thousand.
In the Brasil de Fato report, former Petrobras president Sergio Gabrielli said the reduction in the state company's investments hit the offshore industry and Lava Jato affected the supplier chain and created credit problems for the shipyards; professor Armando Boito (Unicamp) stated that the operation made leniency agreements harder by punishing directors in a way that harmed the companies; the article records that the barrel fell from US$80–100 until mid-2012 to US$25–32 in 2016.
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Source: Queda no barril do petróleo, corrupção e Lava Jato desmantelam indústria naval — Brasil de Fato, Jan. 5, 2017 · News report of January 5, 2017, causes sections · open original ↗
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Limitations: Opinions of a former Petrobras executive and an academic, in an outlet aligned with social movements; they are not measurements.
