Research
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:
2023 Does geographical exposure to language learning centres affect language skills and labour market outcomes in a bilingual city? (joint with Bernat Mallén). Economic Analysis and Policy, 80: 429-449
2023 Earthquake exposure and schooling: impacts and mechanisms (joint with Khalifany Ash Shidiqi and Álvaro Choi). Economics of Education Review, 94: 102397
2022 The Impact of Combining Work with Study on the Labour Market Performance of Graduates: the Joint Role of Work Intensity and Job-Field Match (joint with Alessia Matano). International Journal of Manpower, 43(7): 1556-1578
2022 Regional borders, local unemployment and life satisfaction (joint with Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell). Journal of Regional Science, 62(2): 412-442
2021 Language-in-education, Language Skills and the Intergenerational Transmission of Language in a Bilingual Society (joint with Ramon Caminal and Lorenzo Cappellari). Labour Economics, 70: 101975
2019 Your Language or Mine? The Non-Communicative Benefits of Language Skills (joint with Ramon Caminal). Economic Inquiry, 57(1): 726-750
2019 English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women (joint with Aysit Tansel). Empirica, 46: 669-690
2018 Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform (joint with Lorenzo Cappellari). Economics of Education Review, 64: 90-101
2017 Job Accessibility and Job-Education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (joint with Anna Matas and Josep Lluís Raymond). Papers in Regional Science, 96: 91-112
2016 Misusing our Talent? Overeducation, Overskilling and Skill Underutilisation among Spanish PhD Graduates (joint with Ferran Mañé). The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 27(4): 432–452
2016 (Endogenous) Occupational Choices and Job Satisfaction among Spanish PhD Recipients. International Journal of Manpower, 37(3): 511 - 535
2015 Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey (joint with Aysit Tansel). Journal of Development Studies, 51(4): 407-421
2014 School Composition Effects in Spain: Accounting for Intercept and Slope Effects (joint with Álvaro Choi), Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics , 210(3): 57-83
2013 A New Proposal to Gauge Intergenerational Mobility: Educational Mobility in Europe as a Case Study (joint with Josep Lluís Raymond and Jorge Calero), Social Indicators Research, 114(3): 947-962
2012 Language Knowledge and Earnings in Catalonia (joint with Josep Lluís Raymond), Journal of Applied Economics, 15(1): 89-118
2012 Parental Background and Educational Opportunities: Evidences across Cohorts for Italy and Spain, Applied Economic Analysis, 58: 119-146
2011 Knowledge of Catalan, Public/Private Sector Choice and Earnings: Evidence from a Double Sample Selection Model, Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 197(2): 9-35
RECENT WORKING PAPERS:
2024 Education and Ethnic Intermarriage: Evidence from Higher Education Expansion in Indonesia (joint with Khalifany Ash Shidiqi). IREA Working Paper no. 2024/9.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
- Local Language Skills and Neighbourhood Quality in a Bilingual City
- Bilingual Education and Identity (joint with Ramon Caminal and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell)
- Do language policies affect internal migration in a multilingual country? (joint with Raul Ramos and Vicente Royuela)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (Selected):
2023 Quantitative methods in LPP – Statistical measurement and identification of causal patterns. In Gazzola, M., Grin, F., Cardinal, L. and Heugh, K. (Eds.), "The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning", Routledge
2023 Language Economics (joint with Ainoa Aparicio-Fenoll). In Zimmermann, K. F. (Ed.), "Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics", Springer
2018 Language policy and social segmentation: Evidence from Catalonia (joint with Ramon Caminal). In "Language Policy and Linguistic Justice - Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic Approaches" (Eds. M. Gazzola, T. Templin and B.A. Wickström). Springer
2014 The Occupational Location of Spanish-English bilinguals in the New Information Economy (joint with A. Alarcón, J. Heyman and C. Morales). In “Is There Really any Labor Market Advantage to Being Bilingual in the US?” (Eds. R. M. Callahan and P. Gándara). Multilingual Matters
2014 Returns to Spanish-English Bilingualism in the New Information Economy (joint with A. Alarcón, J. Heyman and C. Morales). In “Is There Really any Labor Market Advantage to Being Bilingual in the US?” (Eds. R. M. Callahan and P. Gándara). Multilingual Matters