as a result of the greater control over inflation achieved by the plano real however real wage rigidity was introduced and firms could no longer use wages but instead had to use employment reductions to make wage bill adjustments young inexperienced workers would have been the most likely to suffer from such redundancies as will be discussed below high turnover is one of the reasons why youth unemployment in brazil is so high youth are also more likely to work in the service sector which is characterised by higher turnover rates