I'm  Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan, and an affiliated researcher at LABORatorio Revelli, Collegio Carlo Alberto and IZA. Previously, I was a senior researcher at RWI in Essen and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. My primary research interests include discrimination, wage inequalities, industrial relations, collective bargaining, labor market institutions, and the evaluation of public policies on labor market. My research has been published in leading economic journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Economic Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, among others. I obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin. 

RESEARCH

 Main Publications: 

How to get out of the starting gate on the right foot: employment effects of investment in human capital (2024) with Daniela Sonedda, The Journal of Human Resourses 

 Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform , with Andrea Weber (2022), Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 64(1): 143–63. 

 Does Employment Protection Affect Educational Mismatch? with Cristina Tealdi (2021) British Journal of Industrial Relations, 59 (3), 701-729 

 Survey Design and Response Analysis: a Study on Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Well-being in Piedmont, a Region of Italy, with Anna Maffioletti e Francesco Scacciati (2019) European Journal of Comparative Economics 

Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Premia Dispersion in Italy, with Francesco Devicienti and Bernardo Fanfani (2019) British Journal of Industrial Relations

Rent sharing, Hold-up and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data with David Card and Francesco Devicienti , (2014) The Review of Economic Studies.

 “More terminological and methodological problems in measuring happiness, life satisfaction and well-being: some first empirical results” (2014) with A. Maffioletti e F. Scacciati, in Vincenzo Girogino Pursuit of Happiness and the Traditions of Wisdom, Springer ISBN 978-3-319-04743-0 

“The Resurrection of the Italian wage curve” with Francesco Devicienti and Lia Pacelli , Economic Letters, vol.98, issue 3, Marzo 2008. 

 Working conditions and employment security and employability, with Lia Pacelli, Francesco Devicienti, Matteo Morini , Ambra Poggi and Patrik Vesan, 2008 , European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Condition Dublin (ISBN 978- 92-897-0828-9). 

“Downward wage rigidity in Italy: Evidence and Consequences ”, with F. Devicienti e P. Sestito, Novembre 2007 The Economic Journal 

Working papers 

Women Inventors: The Legacy of Medieval Guilds (2025) with  Michela Giorgelli , and  Sabrina Di Addario, CESIFO WP

Did COVID-19 (Permanently) Raise the Demand for “Teleworkable” Jobs?  (2024)  with Massimiliano Bratti, Università di Milano; Irene Brunetti, INAPP; Alessandro Corvasce, Università di Milano e Andrea Ricci, INAPP), IZA DP No. 16906 

Ceo Pay  Disclosure and Within-Firm Wage Inequality (2024), IZA DP 17243

Work in progress (selected).

Training Contracts and Firms’ Performances, with Filippo Passerini and Daniela Sonedda 

Gender Quota  , Fertility and Gender Gap within State Owned Entreprise , with Vincenzo Pezone  and Andrea Weber 

The Labor Market Impact of High-Speed Trains, with  Massimiliano Bratti , Anna Bottasso  and Maurizio Conti