Load IBRE dataset

Average Produtivity Growth

The table shows that productivity of industry and services are stagnant.Despite years of schooling increasing.

Estimate regression using statsmodel

The regression show that there is no relation between years of schooling and productivity in Brazil.

You can conclude this in figure below.

Stagnant productivity is a global trend

Using PWT dataset we verify that TFP of various countries was decrease, when we compare 1998 and 2017. See figure below.

Total Productivity Factors in Brazil (PWT data)

The TPF in Brazil between 1955 and 1980. From 1980 it started to decrease.

Spend in education (World Bank Data)

The spend in education in Brazil has increase since 2004. And since 2006 it's bigger than high income countries. See figure below.