Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: RICARI CAROLINI ARAÚJO DE LIMA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE: RICARI CAROLINI ARAÚJO DE LIMA
DATA : 15/08/2025
LOCAL: Sessão virtual
TÍTULO:

Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor market

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Essays;Macroeconomics;Labor;market

PÁGINAS: 46
RESUMO:

This doctoral thesis project is composed of three essays in Macroeconomics and Labor Markets. In the first essay, we propose a new measure of labor misallocation using identified administrative data on formal employment in Brazil (RAIS), disaggregated by observable worker characteristics such as gender and race. The model follows the structure of Hsieh and Klenow (2009), incorporating group-specific distortions to estimate deviations in labor allocation at the establishment level. In the second essay, we apply the measure developed in the first chapter to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to changes in inefficient labor allocation in Brazil. The pandemic is treated as an exogenous shock, with the occurrence of COVID-related deaths among formal workers in a given establishment serving as the treatment criterion. The goal is to identify how this health shock affected the composition and efficiency of the workforce within Brazilian firms in the post-pandemic period. Finally, the third essay analyzes the effects of the 2017 labor reform on labor misallocation and wage inequality. Using the degree of case backlog in the labor court system as a proxy for local institutional frictions, we examine whether the reform had heterogeneous effects depending on the judicial capacity of each region. The analysis focuses on how the institutional context shaped the reform’s impact on workforce composition and wage disparities across groups.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externa à Instituição - LORENA HAKAK MARÇAL
Externa à Instituição - LUCIENE TORRES DE MELLO PEREIRA
Interno - 1037486 - EDILBERTO TIAGO DE ALMEIDA
Interno - 3384435 - FRANCISCO DE LIMA CAVALCANTI
Interno - 1769063 - MARCELO EDUARDO ALVES DA SILVA
Interno - 2777451 - RAFAEL DA SILVA VASCONCELOS
Interna - 1548308 - TATIANE ALMEIDA DE MENEZES