Claudia Macaluso

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I am an applied macroeconomist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and a CESifo Research affiliate. I obtained my PhD in June 2017 at the University of Chicago.

My research interests are labor market dynamics, skill mismatch, occupational and spatial mobility of workers, and human capital. I am especially focused on understanding how labor market conditions across time and space affect workers' choice sets and outside options.  To this respect, I have studied how the local skill composition of jobs affects workers' recovery after layoff, and whether the labor market is perfectly competitive.  

I am currently working on estimating heterogeneity in the labor market and consumption experiences of workers of different races and incomes, and the contribution of staffed job flows to aggregate labor market dynamics.

In ongoing data collection projects, I focus on measuring occupational skills, tasks, and tools across countries, and documenting employers' recruiting efforts and practices.