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Tulio A. Cravo

International Labour Organization (ILO), Lima, Peru

It is a pleasure to contribute to the World of Labor as it is a very interesting instrument to effectively inform policymakers about the latest knowledge on labor market issues and their policy implications.

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Regional Specialist in Public Policy and Productivity, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Research interest

Labor economics, development economics, policy evaluation, private sector development, entrepreneurship, digital platform work

Website

http://sites.google.com/site/tucravo

Past positions

Principal Country Economist for Angola, African Development Bank. Senior Labor Market Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank.

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Loughborough University, 2011

Selected publications

  • "Can work sharing sustain employment during economic downturn? Evidence from Brazil." Labour Economics 90 (2024): 102584 (with P. Jacinto and R. Quintana).

  • “Effects of Job Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil.” Economía - Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association 21:2 (2021): 157-186 (with C. O'Leary, A. C. Sierra, and L. Justino).

  • “Heterogeneous effects of Brazilian unemployment insurance reforms on layoffs.” Economics Letters 197 (2020): 109612 (with C. O'Leary, A. C. Sierra, and L. Justino).

  • “The impact of business-support services on firm performance: a meta-analysis.” Small Business Economics 53:3 (2019): 753–770 (with C. Piza).

  • “Regional growth and SMEs in Brazil: A spatial panel Approach”. Regional Studies 49:12 (2015).

article(s)

  • Firm size and business cycles

    Do small businesses shed proportionately more jobs than large businesses during recessions?

    Tulio A. Cravo, June 2017
    The discussion on how economic activity affects employment in large and small businesses is critical for the formulation of labor policies, especially during recessions. Knowing how firm size is related to job creation and job destruction is important to design effective policies aimed at dampening employment fluctuations. Recent evidence for developed countries indicates that large firms are proportionately more sensitive to cycles than small firms; however, this pattern is not confirmed for periods of credit constraint or in a developing country context, where small businesses might be more sensitive due to more extreme credit constraints.
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