SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Can work sharing sustain employment during economic downturn? Evidence from Brazil" ((with Paulo Jacinto and Rodrigo Quintana), Labour Economics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102584
“Effects of Job Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil” (with Chris O'Leary, Ana Cristina Sierra and Leandro Justino). Economía - Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2021. [APPENDIX]
“Heterogeneous effects of Brazilian unemployment insurance reforms on layoffs” (with Chris O'Leary, Ana Cristina Sierra and Leandro Justino). Economics Letters, Vol 197, 2020.
“The impact of business-support services on firm performance: a meta-analysis” (with Caio Piza). Small Business Economics, Vol 53 (3) 753–770, 2019.
“Firm Size and Business Cycles: Do small businesses shed proportionately more jobs than large businesses during recessions?” IZA World of Labor, 2017.
“A closer look at the recent skilled labor demand increase in Brazil” (with Paulo Jacinto and Eduardo Ribeiro). Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 44 Issue: 2, 2017.
“Regional Growth and SMEs in Brazil: A Spatial Panel Approach”. Regional Studies, Vol 49(12), 2015.
“What about regions in regional science? A convergence exercise using different geographic scales of European Union”. (with Guilherme Resende). Economics Bulletin. Vol 34(3), 2014.
“Economic Growth in Brazil: a Spatial Filtering Approach”. (with Guilherme Resende). Annals of Regional Science. Vol 50(2), 2013.
“Are Small Employers More Cyclically Sensitive? Evidence from Brazil”. Journal of Macroeconomics. vol 33(4), 2011.
“SMEs and Regional Economic Growth in Brazil” (with B. Becker and A. Gourlay). Small Business Economics. Vol 38(2), 2011.
“SMEs and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Micro-regions”. Papers in Regional Science. vol 89(4), 2010.
“What Type of Human Capital Better Explains the Convergence Process among Countries” (with Elias Soukiazis). Review of Development Economics. vol. 12 (1), 2008, pp. 124-142.
ILO REPORTS
“Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms. New data for Latin America and the Caribbean region, April 2025.
“Búsqueda de empleo e intermediación laboral pública en América Latina”, Nov 2024.
BOOKS
“Employment dynamics and labor market policies in Brazil”, available at Amazon.
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS
"Determinants of Labor Market Outcomes in Angola" (with Elsa Nabenge and Paulo Jacinto), African Development Bank Group Working Paper No. 371, December 2022. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
"Can Work Sharing Sustain Employment During Economic Downturn?" (with Rodrigo Quintana and Paulo Jacinto), 33rd Annual Conference of
the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), September 2021 and 48th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Economic Association (ANPEC), December 2020.
“Heterogeneous impacts on layoffs of changes in Brazilian unemployment insurance eligibility rules" (with Chris O'Leary, Ana Cristina Sierra and Leandro Justino), Upjohn Institute working paper ; 20-318, February 2020.
“The Effect of Job Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil” (with Chris O'Leary, Ana Cristina Sierra and Leandro Justino), Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 948, February 2019.
"Demand-Driven Training and Job Turnover: The Effects of Brazil’s Pronatec-MDIC at Firm and Worker Level" (with Rodrigo Quintana), Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 1009, June 2019.
“Who Suffers during Recessions in Brazil” (with Caroline Schmanski), Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 975, February 2019.
“Employment Cyclicality by Firm Size, Wage, Productivity and Age in Brazil” (with Paulo Jacinto and Caroline Schmanski), Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 903, August 2018.
“The Impact of Business Support Services for Small and Medium Enterprises on Firm Performance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis” (with Caio Piza), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7664, May 2016.
“The Brazilian Regional Development Funds And Economic Growth: A Spatial Panel Approach”, (with Guilherme Mendes Resende) WIDER Working Paper 2015/118 Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2015.
“Industrial Clusters and Economic Performance in Brazil,” (with Jose Claudio Pires, Simon Lodato and Caio Piza) IDB Working Papers 475, Inter-American Development Bank, October 2013.
“Programa Nacional de Crédito Fundiário (PNCF): uma avaliação de seus impactos regionais” (with Ernesto Galindo, Guilherme M Resende, César de Castro). Discussion Papers 2042, IPEA, 2015.
“Avaliação dos impactos econômicos do Fundo Constitucional de Financimanto do Centro-Oeste (FCO) entre 2004 a 2010” (with Guilherme Resende). Discussion Papers 1969, IPEA, 2014.
SELECTED EVALUATION PUBLICATIONS
Inter-American Development Bank, Office of Evaluation and Oversight (Washington, DC) “A Comparative Analysis of IDB Approaches Supporting
SMEs: Assessing Results in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector”, October 2014.
“IDB-9: Assessment of IDB-9's Private Sector Development Framework”, March 2013.
“Country Program Evaluation of Ecuador: 2007-2011”, June 2012.
“Evaluation of the Opportunities for the Majority Initiative”, June 2012.
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) “Business support for small and medium enterprises in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review”. (with Piza, C., Gonzales, L., Taylor, L., Musse, I., Furtado, I., Sierra, A,. and Abdelnour, S.) The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), 2016.
Ministry for National Integration of Brazil/Delegation of the European Union to Brazil “Regional Policy in the European Union and Brazil”, (with Soukiazis, E and Resende, G), Brasilia, December 2014.
Ministry for National Integration of Brazil “Painel de Indicadores de Desenvolvimento Regional para o Observatório do Desenvolvimento Regional (ODR)”, 2015.