For the links to the papers including appendixes, see here.
Peer-reviewed journals:
-(with G.Bovini, E.Caroli, J.Casanova Ferrando, F.Cingano, P.Falco, F.Felgueroso, M.Jansen, P.Martins, A.Melo, M.Oberfichtner, M.Popp), Labor market concentration, wages and job security in Europe, Journal of Human Resources, 61(3), 2026, forthcoming (Open access)
- (with E.Caroli, B.Chaves-Ferreira, A.Rebérioux), Don't Downsize This! Social Reactions to Mass Dismissals on Twitter, Industrial Relations, 2025, forthcoming.
-(with E.Caroli, K.Geay and A.Rebérioux), Heavy is the Crown: CEOs' Social Interactions and Layoff Decisions, Industrial and Corporate Change, 33(5), 1253–1270, 2024.
- (with S.Araki, A.Green, L.Marcolin and C.Volpin), Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic, University of Chicago Law Review, 90(2), 339-378, 2023. (Open access). This paper was nominated for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2024.
- (with C.Batut and E.Caroli), Labor Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires, Labour Economics, 81, 2023, 102338
- (with E.Caroli, F.Fontaine and A.Rebérioux), Escaping Social Pressure: Fixed-Term Contracts in Multi-Establishment Firms, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 188, 697-715, 2021.
- (with F.Cingano) Before it gets better: The short term employment costs of regulatory reforms, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 72(1), 127-157, 2019.
- (with G.Brunello and E.Caroli), Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals, Journal of Labor Economics, 35(2), 429-483, 2017.
- (with E.Caroli), Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 119-120, 13-37, 2015.
- (with T. Manfredi), Capital’s grabbing hand? A cross-industry analysis of the decline of the labor share in OECD countries, Eurasian Business Review, 4(1), 3-30, 2014.
- (with A.Garnero),“Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data”, Labour Economics, 21(1), 25-41, 2013. +Dataset
- (with T.Breda, E.Caroli and A.Rebérioux), “Working in Family Firms: Paid Less But More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 66(2), 433-466, 2013.
- “Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions”, Review of Economics and Institutions, 3(3), art.1, 2012.
- (with G.Brunello) “Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training: A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe”, European Economic Review, 55(8), 1152-1176, 2011.
- (with J.Arnold and S.Scarpetta), “Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries”, Research in Economics, 65(2), 110-123, 2011. + Dataset
-“Inside the Perpetual-motion Machine: Cross-country Comparable Evidence on Job and Worker Flows at the Industry and Firm Level”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 19(6), 2097-2134, 2010.
- (with L.Nunziata and D.Venn) “Job protection legislation and productivity growth in OECD countries”, Economic Policy, 24(58), 349-402, 2009. +Erratum; +Web Appendix.
- (with R.Duval) “Unemployment, institutions and reform complementarities: Re-assessing the aggregate evidence for OECD countries”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25(1), 40-59, 2009
- (with G.Brunello) “Is training more frequent when the wage premium is smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel”, Labour Economics, 15(2), 272-290, 2008.
- (with R.Duval) "The Determinants of Unemployment across OECD Countries: Reassessing the Role of Policies and Institutions", OECD Economic Studies, 42(1), 7-86, 2006.
- "Credibility, Irreversibility of Investment, and Liberalization Reforms in LDCs", Economic Notes, 35(2), 203-218, 2006.
- “Training, wages and employment security: an empirical analysis on European data”, Applied Economics Letters, 13(8), 523-527, 2006.
- (with S.Scarpetta) “Growth, Technological Change and ICT Diffusion: Recent evidence from OECD countries”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18(3), 324-344, 2002.
- (with E.Ernst) “Labour Market Regulation, Industrial Relations, and Technological Regimes: A Tale of Comparative Advantage”, Industrial and Corporate Change, 11(3), 391-426, 2002.
- (with S.Scarpetta) “Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD countries?: A Pooled Mean Group Approach”, Economics Letters, 74(3), 399-405, 2002.
- (with S.Scarpetta), “The Driving Forces of Economic Growth in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country Time-Series Data”, OECD Economic Studies, 33(2), 11-56, 2001.
- (with G.Dosi, L.Marengo and M.Valente), “Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 9(1), 5-26, 1999.
Other journals:
- (with S.Scarpetta), Verde e giusta: istruzioni per una transizione possibile, Eco, N° 7-2024, 78-83, 2024.
- (with A.Winckler and S.Ozil), Pratiques anti-concurrentielles sur le marché du travail (Séminaire Nasse – Paris, 24 mars 2023), Concurrences, September 2023, N° 3-2023, Art. N° 112965.
- (with S.Broecke, S.Cazes, A.Garnero and C.Touzet), Collective Bargaining in Times of Platform Work, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Winter 2020, 1(2), art.5, 2020.
- (with D.Venn), “The impact of labour market policies on productivity in OECD countries”, International Productivity Monitor, 17, 3-15, 2008.
- “Policies to increase workers’ training”, The Icfai Journal of Training and Development, 1(1), 76-98, 2008.
- “Improving skills for more and better jobs? The quest for efficient policies to promote adult education and training”, European Economy: Special Reports, n.3, pp.103-137, 2004.
- “Solving the training divide”, OECD Observer, No. 240/241, pp. 43-45, 2003.
Authored OECD reports:
- (with E.Farchy, S.Königs, A.Melo, J.Terrero Dávila), "Setting the scene: Demographic change, economic growth and intergenerational inequalities", in OECD Employment Outlook 2025, Chapter 2, 2025.
- OECD Employment Outlook 2025: Can We Get Through the Demographic Crunch?, ed., 2025.
- (with A.Garnero and A.Puymoyen), "The jobs that will make the net-zero transition: Who holds them and are they good?", in OECD Employment Outlook 2024, Chapter 2, 2024.
- OECD Employment Outlook 2024: The Net-Zero Transition and the Labour Market, ed., 2024.
- (with S.Broecke), OECD Employment Outlook 2023: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Market, eds., 2023.
- (with S.Araki, A.Green and L.Marcolin), "Monopsony and Concentration in the Labour Market", in OECD Employment Outlook 2022, Chapter 3, 2022.
- OECD Employment Outlook 2022: Building Back More Inclusive Labour Markets, ed., 2022.
- OECD Employment Outlook 2021: Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis and Recovery, ed., 2021.
- OECD Employment Outlook 2020: Worker Security and the COVID-19 crisis, ed., 2020.
- (with S.Broecke), "Labour market regulation 4.0: Protecting workers in a Changing World of Work", in OECD Employment Outlook 2019, Chapter 4, 2019.
- (with S.Broecke and P.Falco), "Overview: The Future of Work Is in Our Hands", in OECD Employment Outlook 2019, Chapter 1, 2019.
- (with S.Broecke), OECD Employment Outlook 2019: The Future of Work, eds., 2019.
- (with S.Carcillo and C.Prinz), "Protecting and Supporting Workers", in Good Jobs for All in a Changing World of Work: The OECD Jobs Strategy, Chapter 9, 2018.
- (with S.Broecke, A.Hijzen and C.Schwellnus), "Introduction", in Good Jobs for All in a Changing World of Work: The OECD Jobs Strategy, Chapter 1, 2018.
- (with S.Broecke, A.Hijzen and C.Schwellnus), "Overview", in Good Jobs for All in a Changing World of Work: The OECD Jobs Strategy, Part 1 (Chapters 3 to 6), 2018.
- OECD Employment Outlook 2018, ed., 2018.
- (with P.Marianna and P.Swaim), "How are we doing? A broad assessment of labour market performance", in OECD Employment Outlook 2017, Chapter 1, 2017.
- (with F.Cingano), "The short-term labour market effects of structural reforms: pain before the gain?", in OECD Employment Outlook 2016, Chapter 3, 2016.
- (with S.Cazes), "Non-regular employment, job security and the labour market divide", in OECD Employment Outlook 2014, Chapter 4, 2014.
- (with J.Mestres), The 2012 Labour Market Reform in Spain: A Preliminary Assessment, 2014.
- "Protecting jobs, enhancing flexibility: A new look at employment protection legislation", in OECD Employment Outlook 2013, Chapter 2, 2013.
- (with A.Vourc’h), "Labour Losing to Capital: What Explains the Declining Labour Share?", in OECD Employment Outlook 2012, Chapter 3, 2012.
- (with D.Venn), "Earnings Volatility: Causes and Consequences", in OECD Employment Outlook 2011, Chapter 3, 2011.
-(with P.Marianna), "Institutional and Policy Determinants of Labour Market Flows", in OECD Employment Outlook 2010, Chapter 3, 2010.
-(with P.Marianna), "How do industry, firm and worker characteristics shape job and worker flows?", in OECD Employment Outlook 2009, Chapter 2, 2009.
-(with A.Saint-Martin), "The price of prejudice: Labour market discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnicity", in OECD Employment Outlook 2008, Chapter 3, 2008.
-(with D.Venn), "More jobs but less productive? The impact of labour market policies on productivity", in OECD Employment Outlook 2007, Chapter 2, 2007.
-(with A.Saint-Martin and R.Duval), "Understanding policy interactions and complementarities, and their implication for reform strategies", in OECD Employment Outlook 2006, Chapter 6, 2006.
-"Reassessing the role of policies and institutions for labour market performance: A quantitative analysis", in OECD Employment Outlook 2006, Chapter 7, 2006.
-“Improving Skills for More and Better Jobs: Does Training Make a Difference?”, in OECD Employment Outlook 2004, Chapter 4, 2004.
-(with W.Ok) "Upgrading Workers’ Skills and Competencies through Continuous Vocational Training", in OECD Employment Outlook 2003, Chapter 5, 2003.
-(with L.Bardone), “Women at Work: Who Are They and How Are They Faring?”, in OECD Employment Outlook 2002, Chapter 2, 2002.
-(with. P.Swaim, G.Nicoletti, E.Ernst, S.Jean and P.Santiago), “And the Twain Shall Meet: Cross-Market Effects of Labour and Product Market Policies”, in OECD Employment Outlook 2002, Chapter 5, 2002.
-(with S.Blondal), “The Cross-Market Effects of Product and Labour Market Policies”, in OECD Economic Outlook n.70, 2001.
Book chapters:
- (with S.Broecke and L.A.Rustad), “New Forms of Work”, in S.Carcillo and S.Scarpetta (Eds.), Handbook of Labour Market Transformations, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2024.
- (with A.Booth, G.Brunello, M. De Paola and E.Leuven), “Workplace training in Europe”, half of G.Brunello, P.Garibaldi and E.Wasmer (Eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Can Science and Agents' Diversity Tie the Hands of Clio? Technological Trajectories, History and Growth, in P.Barnes (Ed.), Economic Perspectives on Innovation and Invention, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
- (with E.Ernst), “Labour market institutions, product market regulation and innovation: Cross-country evidence”, in P.Barnes (Ed.), Economic Perspectives on Innovation and Invention, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
- (with G.Dosi), “Competing Technologies, Technological Monopolies, and the Rate of Convergence to a Stable Market Structure” in C.Antonelli, D.Foray, B.Hall and E.Steinmuller (Eds.), New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New technology: Essays in Honor of Paul David, Cheltenham, United Kingdom and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006
- (with G.Brunello), “C'è più formazione quando c'è più compressione salariale? Uno studio sull'Indagine longitudinale sulle famiglie della Comunità Europea” in G.Ballarino and D.Checchi (Eds.), Scelte individuali e vincoli strutturali. Sistema scolastico e disuguaglianza sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
- (with E.Bartelsman, J.Haltiwanger, R.Jarmin, S.Scarpetta and T.Schank), “The Spread of ICT and Productivity Growth: Is Europe Really Lagging Behind in the New Economy?” half of D.Cohen, P.Garibaldi and S.Scarpetta (Eds.), The ICT Revolution: Productivity Differences and the Digital Divide, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-140, 2004
- (with G.Dosi) “When and How Chance and Human Will Can Twist the Arms of Clio: An Essay on Path-Dependence in A World of Irreversibilities”, in R.Garud and P.Karnoe (eds.), Path-Dependence and Creation, London: Routledge, and Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
- (with S.Scarpetta and I.Visco), “Knowledge, Technology and Growth: Recent Evidence from OECD countries”, in J.Smets and M.Dombrecht (eds.), How to Promote Economic Growth in the Euro Area, Cheltenham, United Kingdom and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001, republished in Paganetto L (Ed.), Knowledge economy, information technologies and growth, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2004.
- (with G.Dosi) “Heterogeneous Agents, Complementarities, and Diffusion: Do Increasing Returns Imply Convergence to International Technological Monopolies?, in D.Delli Gatti, M.Gallegati and A.Kirman (eds.), Interaction and Market Structure:Essays on Heterogeneity in Economics, Berlin: Springer, 2000.
- (with G.Dosi, L.Marengo and M.Valente), “Les normes comme propriétés émergentes d’un apprentissage adaptif”, in B. Reynaud (ed.) Les limites de la rationalité. Tome 2: Les figures du collectif. Paris (France): La Découverte, March 1997.
Op-ed articles:
- (with S.Araki, A.Green, L.Marcolin and C.Volpin), "Labor markets are the new frontier for competition policy", Promarket, 28 July 2023.
- (with A.Garnero, S.Scarpetta e A.Salvi del Pero) “Perché i salari non crescono”, lavoce.info, 31 July 2018.
- (with F.Cingano), "It may get worse before it gets better: The short-term employment consequences of structural reforms", VoxEU, 16 April 2018.
- (with A.Saint-Martin and S.Scarpetta) “Il prezzo del pregiudizio”, lavoce.info 2 July 2008, republished on Il Denaro, 8 July 2008.
Other publications:
- (with S.Araki, A.Green, L.Marcolin and C.Volpin), Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic, IZA World of Labor Opinions, January 2023.
- (with S.Broecke, S.Cazes, A.Garnero and C.Touzet) “Collective Bargaining 4.0: Using Labour Law to Extend Coverage to New Forms of Work”, OECD On the level, November 2019.
- (with A.Saint-Martin) “Ending Job Discrimination”, OECD Policy Brief, July 2008.
- (with W.Ok) “How do firms' and individuals' incentives to invest in human capital vary across groups?”, Proceedings of the joint EC-OECD seminar on "Human Capital and labour market performance: evidence and policy challenges", 2005.
- (with G.Quintini et A.Saint-Martin) “La protection de l’emploi: coûts et avantages d’une meilleure sécurité de l’emploi”, Synthèses OCDE, February 2005.
- (with L.Bardone, A.Puymoyen and P.Swaim), “Dissecting the Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from International Comparisons?” in Eurostat, Gender Statistics: Occupational Segregation: Extent, Causes and Consequences, Eurostat, European Communities, Luxembourg, 2004.
- (with G.Quintini et A.Saint-Martin) “Employment Protection : The Costs and Benefits of Greater Job Security”, OECD Policy Brief, September 2004
- “Comments on De la Fuente” in A. De la Fuente, Human capital in a global knowledge-based economy : Part II : Assessment at the EU country level, Bruxelles : European Commission, pp.91-94, 2003.
- “Employment and Investment in Human Capital”, in Greek Presidency of the European Union, The Future of Work: Key Challenges for the European Employment Strategy, Athens: Employment Observatory Research – Informatics S.A., pp. 382-394, 2003.
- “Credibility, Sequencing and Speed of Structural Adjustment Reforms: A Model with Irreversibility of Investment”, Collana Studi e Ricerche “Marco Fanno”, n°3, 1995.