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Rafael Lopes de Melo

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First Name:Rafael
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Last Name:Lopes de Melo
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RePEc Short-ID:plo233
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Terminal Degree:2009 Economics Department; Yale University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Department of Economics
University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (United States)
http://economics.uchicago.edu/
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Working papers

  1. Theodore Papageorgiou & Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2015. "Human Capital Transferability and Information Spillovers: A Tractable Framework," 2015 Meeting Papers 1258, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  2. Theodore Papageorgiou & Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2014. "Learning, Occupational Choice and Human Capital Accumulation: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach," 2014 Meeting Papers 1359, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  3. Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2014. "How Firms Affect Wages: a Structural Decomposition," 2014 Meeting Papers 1032, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  4. Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2012. "Firm Heterogeneity, Sorting and the Minimum Wage," 2012 Meeting Papers 611, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  5. Yale University & Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2008. "Assortative Matching in the Brazilian Labor Market," 2008 Meeting Papers 801, Society for Economic Dynamics.

Articles

  1. Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2018. "Firm Wage Differentials and Labor Market Sorting: Reconciling Theory and Evidence," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 126(1), pages 313-346.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2012. "Firm Heterogeneity, Sorting and the Minimum Wage," 2012 Meeting Papers 611, Society for Economic Dynamics.

    Cited by:

    1. Niklas Engbom & Christian Moser, 2017. "Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil," CESifo Working Paper Series 6393, CESifo.
    2. Juan A. Correa & Francisco Parro, 2020. "On the heterogeneous short‐term effects of minimum wages on labor demand," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 16(2), pages 184-195, June.

Articles

  1. Rafael Lopes de Melo, 2018. "Firm Wage Differentials and Labor Market Sorting: Reconciling Theory and Evidence," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 126(1), pages 313-346.

    Cited by:

    1. Xiaoming Cai & Pieter A. Gautier & Ronald P. Wolthoff, 2021. "Search, Screening and Sorting," CESifo Working Paper Series 9158, CESifo.
    2. Rafael Dix-Carneiro & Brian K. Kovak, 2015. "Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data," Upjohn Working Papers 15-225, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    3. Leland D. Crane, 2014. "Firm Dynamics and Assortative Matching," Working Papers 14-25, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    4. Katarína Borovičková & Robert Shimer, 2017. "High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms," NBER Working Papers 24074, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Winkler, Erwin, 2020. "Diverging paths: Labor reallocation, sorting, and wage inequality," VfS Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual Conference): Gender Economics 224535, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    6. Gianluca Orefice & Giovanni Peri, 2020. "Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching," CESifo Working Paper Series 8174, CESifo.
    7. John M. Abowd & Francis Kramarz & Sebastien Perez-Duarte & Ian M. Schmutte, 2017. "Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching," Working Papers 17-43, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    8. Isaac Sorkin, 2017. "Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference," NBER Working Papers 23938, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Jesper Bagger & Kazuhiko Sumiya & Mads Hejlesen & Rune Majlund Vejlin, 2019. "Income Taxation and the Equilibrium Allocation of Labor," 2019 Meeting Papers 841, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    10. Alvarez, Jorge & Benguria, Felipe & Engbom, Niklas & Moser, Christian, 2017. "Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil," MPRA Paper 95385, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Rasmus Lentz & Suphanit Piyapromdee & Jean-Marc Robin, 2022. "The Anatomy of Sorting - Evidence from Danish Data," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03869383, HAL.
    12. Elhanan Helpman & Oleg Itskhoki & Marc-Andreas Muendler & Stephen J. Redding, 2017. "Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 84(1), pages 357-405.
    13. Daniel Borowczyk-Martins & Jake Bradley & Linas Tarasonis, 2014. "Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill," Working Papers halshs-00989748, HAL.
    14. Niklas Engbom & Christian Moser, 2017. "Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil," CESifo Working Paper Series 6393, CESifo.
    15. Rasmus Lentz & Jean Marc Robin & Suphanit Piyapromdee, 2018. "On Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Wages and Employment Mobility: Evidence from Danish Register Data," 2018 Meeting Papers 469, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    16. Sarah Louise Jewell & Giovanni Razzu & Carl Singleton, 2020. "Who Works for Whom and the UK Gender Pay Gap," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 58(1), pages 50-81, March.
    17. Achyuta Adhvaryu & Vittorio Bassi & Anant Nyshadham & Jorge A. Tamayo, 2020. "No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm," NBER Working Papers 27006, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    18. Julia Fonseca & Adrien Matray, 2022. "Financial Inclusion, Economic Development, and Inequality: Evidence from Brazil," Working Papers 308, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies..
    19. Cristian Bartolucci & Ignacio Monzon, 2014. "Frictions Lead to Sorting: a Partnership Model with On-the-Match Search," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 385, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
    20. Ghazala Azmat & Marc Möller, 2018. "The Distribution of Talent Across Contests," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03263984, HAL.
    21. Lochner, Benjamin & Schulz, Bastian, 2020. "Firm productivity, wages, and sorting," IAB-Discussion Paper 202004, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
    22. Schulz, Bastian & Lochner, Benjamin, 2016. "Labor Market Sorting in Germany," VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145902, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    23. Bonhomme, Stéphane & Holzheu, Kerstin & Lamadon, Thibaut & Manresa, Elena & Mogstad, Magne & Setzler, Bradley, 2021. "How much should we trust estimates of firm effcts and worker sorting?," Working Paper Series 2021:20, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    24. Müller, Steffen & Neuschäffer, Georg, 2020. "Worker participation in decision-making, worker sorting, and firm performance," IWH Discussion Papers 11/2020, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).
    25. Crane, Leland D. & Hyatt, Henry R. & Murray, Seth M., 2023. "Cyclical labor market sorting," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 233(2), pages 524-543.
    26. Peeters, Thomas & van Ours, Jan C., 2022. "International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market," IZA Discussion Papers 15521, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    27. Jacob Schwartz, 2018. "Schooling Choice, Labour Market Matching, and Wages," Papers 1803.09020, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2019.
    28. Freund, L. B., 2022. "Superstar Teams: The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities," Janeway Institute Working Papers 2235, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    29. Tiago Pires & Arek Szydłowski & Shuai Zhao, 2024. "Firm‐specific Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Brazil," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 86(3), pages 568-605, June.
    30. Kyle Herkenhoff & Jeremy Lise & Guido Menzio & Gordon M. Phillips, 2024. "Production and Learning in Teams," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 92(2), pages 467-504, March.
    31. Ezzi Ferdaws & Jarboui Anis & Zouari-Hadiji Rim, 2020. "CSR categories and R&D investment: the moderating role of Managerial emotional intelligence," Management & Marketing, Sciendo, vol. 15(1), pages 17-37, March.
    32. Torres, Sónia & Portugal, Pedro & Addison, John T. & Guimarães, Paulo, 2018. "The sources of wage variation and the direction of assortative matching: Evidence from a three-way high-dimensional fixed effects regression model," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 47-60.
    33. Bastien Drut & Richard Duhautois, 2015. "Assortative Matching Using Soccer Data," Post-Print hal-02932172, HAL.
    34. Schoellman, Todd, 2020. "Comment on “migration costs and observational returns to migration in the developing world”," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 155-157.
    35. Simeon Alder, 2016. "A Tale of Two C(...)s: Competence and Complementarity," 2016 Meeting Papers 1583, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    36. Ralf Buckley & Mary-Ann Cooper, 2021. "Assortative Matching of Tourists and Destinations: Agents or Algorithms?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-10, February.
    37. Pedro Portugal & Hugo Reis & Paulo Guimarães & Ana Rute Cardoso, 2023. "What lies behind returns to schooling: the role of labor market sorting and worker heterogeneity," Working Papers w202322, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.
    38. Cristian Bartolucci & Francesco Devicienti & Ignacio Monzón, 2018. "Identifying Sorting in Practice," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 10(4), pages 408-438, October.
    39. Rafael Dix-Carneiro & Brian K. Kovak, 2017. "Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade," NBER Chapters, in: Trade and Labor Markets, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    40. Moser, Christian, 2016. "How Could Wage Inequality Within and Across Enterprises be Reduced?," MPRA Paper 95381, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    41. Fonseca, Julia & Matray, Adrien, 2024. "Financial inclusion, economic development, and inequality: Evidence from Brazil," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).
    42. Stefan Leknes & Jørn Rattsø & Hildegunn E. Stokke, 2020. "Assortative labor matching, city size, and the education level of workers," Working Paper Series 18320, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
    43. Jan Eeckhout & Xi Weng, 2018. "The Technological Origins of the Decline in Labor Market Dynamism," 2018 Meeting Papers 1007, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    44. John Haltiwanger & Henry Hyatt & Erika McEntarfer, 2018. "Who Moves Up the Job Ladder?," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 36(S1), pages 301-336.
    45. GORYUNOV, Maxim, 2017. "Sorting when firms have size," Economics Working Papers MWP 2017/09, European University Institute.
    46. Amior, Michael, 2019. "Education and geographical mobility: the role of the job surplus," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 102701, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    47. Michèle A. Weynandt, 2014. "Selective Firing and Lemons," NRN working papers 2014-05, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
    48. Banfi, Stefano & Choi, Sekyu & Villena-Roldán, Benjamin, 2019. "Sorting On-line and On-time," MPRA Paper 91763, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    49. Schroeder, Sarah, 2025. "Exporters, multinationals and residual wage inequality: Evidence and theory," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
    50. Eugenia Andreasen & Patricio Valenzuela, 2018. "Investment Opportunities and Corporate Credit Risk," Documentos de Trabajo 336, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile.
    51. Simeon Alder, 2018. "The Macroeconomics of Sorting and Turnover in a Dynamic Assignment Model\," 2018 Meeting Papers 1250, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    52. Leland Crane & Henry Hyatt & Seth Murray, 2018. "Cyclical Labor Market Sorting," 2018 Meeting Papers 939, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    53. Alex Xi He & John Kennes & Daniel le Maire, 2018. "Complementarity and Advantage in the Competing Auctions of Skills," Economics Working Papers 2018-10, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
    54. Paul Bingley & Lorenzo Cappellari, 2022. "Earnings Dynamics, Inequality and Firm Heterogeneity," LISER Working Paper Series 2022-07, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
    55. Jorge Pérez Pérez & José G. Nuño-Ledesma, 2024. "Workers, Workplaces, Sorting, and Wage Dispersion in Mexico," Working Papers 2024-06, Banco de México.
    56. Hugo Reis & Paulo Guimarães & Pedro Portugal & Ana Rute Cardoso, 2022. "Human Capital Spillovers and Returns to Education," Working Papers w202219, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.
    57. Rafael Dix-Carneiro & Brian K Kovak, 2016. "Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics," Working Papers id:11213, eSocialSciences.
    58. Jason Sockin, 2022. "Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?," CESifo Working Paper Series 9842, CESifo.
    59. Gallen, Yana & Lesner, Rune V. & Vejlin, Rune, 2019. "The labor market gender gap in Denmark: Sorting out the past 30 years," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 58-67.
    60. Fietz, Katharina & Lakemann, Tabea & Beber, Bernd & Priebe, Jan & Lay, Jann, 2025. "Formalizing employment in Africa's small firms: Experimental evidence from Côte D'Ivoire," Ruhr Economic Papers 1149, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    61. Giovanni Gallipoli & Khalil Esmkhani & Michael Böhm, 2019. "Skill-Biased Firms and the Distribution of Labor Market Returns," 2019 Meeting Papers 1199, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    62. Kory Kantenga, 2016. "Sorting and Wage Inequality," 2016 Meeting Papers 660, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    63. Liyang Wan & Yunxiao Liu & Kangjuan Lv & Ning Zhang, 2024. "Firm Innovation in Hazy Days: Chinese Evidence," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 87(7), pages 1923-1954, July.
    64. Manuel Macera & Hitoshi Tsujiyama, 2024. "Inequality and technological change," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(2), pages 427-451, May.
    65. Roberto Pinheiro & Murat Tasci, 2019. "Firms, Skills, and Wage Inequality," Working Papers 17-06R, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
    66. Andreas Gulyas, 2018. "Identifying Labor Market Sorting with Firm Dynamics," 2018 Meeting Papers 856, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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  1. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (1) 2013-05-11
  2. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2015-03-22
  3. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2013-05-11
  4. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2013-05-11

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