If no draft is posted, send an email to rafael.vasconcelos@ufpe.br for the current draft.

Working papers and Working in progress:

• Competition, Productivity, and Resource misallocation in High-Friction Economies

• Effects of Patent Infringements on Innovation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Brazil 

• Knowledge Diffusion by Imported Innovative goods: Evidence from Brazil 

• Knowledge Diffusion through Patent Disclosure: Evidence on the Labor Market in Brazil

Published papers:

• Misallocation in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, vol. 37(2), November, 2017.  

  • Media coverage (in portuguese): Valor economico, Valor economico, Nexo , Nexo

Other publications and retired papers

• Vasconcelos, R.; Vaz, P.. A literatura sobre misallocation In: O desafio da Produtividade. Fabio Giambiagi e José Ronaldo de Castro Souza Júnior (org.). 1 ed , 2024, v.1, p. 100-130.

• Pandemia pode impulsionar inovação, mas dinheiro e mão de obra são desafios, Opinion article, UOL, July, 2021.

• Para economistas, auxílio permanente de R$ 400 desrespeita lei de gastos, article, UOL, November, 2021.

• The Role of Resource Misallocation in Structural Change (joint with Vladimir Teles)

• Expectations and firm dynamics: Aggregate versus idiosyncratic shocks in emerging economies (Joint with Marcelo Eduardo da Silva and P Vas), 2022

Graduate students

• Jose Edson (expected 2027)

  • PhD's thesis: 

    • The Adoption of Private Mobile Service and Labor Market Effects: Evidence from Brazil 

    • Mobile Internet adoption and Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil

    • Labor Market Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Driven by Mobile Internet Access: Evidence from Brazil

• Ricari (expected 2027)

  • PhD's thesis:

    • Measuring Labor Misallocation: A New Approach with Evidence from Brazil

    • Labor Market Reform and Worker Turnover: Evidence from Brazilian Labor Courts

    • The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Labor Misallocation in Brazil

• Rafaela  (expected 2027)

  • PhD's thesis:

    • Social protection distortions and labor supply responses: evidence from Brazil’s seasonal fishing ban

    • Digital access totemporary disability insurance and labor market outcomes: evidence from Brazil

    • Financial frictions in maternity leave and gender labor misallocation: evidence from Brazil

• Pedro (expected 2028)

  • PhD's thesis:

    • Occupational access to self-employment and labor market distortions: theory and evidence from Brazil

    • Unemployment insurance shocks, employment, and wage inflation in Brazil

• Lucas  (expected 2027)

  • Master's thesis: The unintended effects of minimum wages on labor allocation and social protection: evidence from Brazil

  • First placement: 

• Adolfo  (2026)

  • Master's thesis: Labor Market Responses to Changes in Disability Insurance Policy: Evidence from Brazil

• João Pedro Cavalcanti  (2021)

  • Master's thesis: Life Cycle Dynamics of Firms and Resource Misallocation in Brazil

  • First placement: 2021, PhD in University of Tennessee, United States of America