Fabio Cerina

Welcome to my home page! I am full professor in Economic Policy (13A2) at the Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali of the University of Cagliari.

I am director of the Master's degree program in Economics, Finance and Data Analysis at the University of Cagliari.

I am also Researcher at CRENoS (Center for North South Economic Research) based in Cagliari and Sassari. 

I am an economist with research interests spanning both the macro- and micro-economics of labor markets. On the macro side, I study the spatial and occupational dynamics underlying job polarization and its geographic dimension, as well as how time allocation shapes aggregate economic outcomes. On the micro side, my work examines the causes and consequences of the structural shift toward remote work after the pandemic, and explores labor-market incentives and the selection of politicians.

UPDATES

• NEW WORKING PAPER! In the work "Skilled-biased Remote Work and Incentives" me, Luca Deidda and Simone Nobili first document the post-pandemic concurrent rise and persistence of remote work and performance pay especially in high-skilled jobs, then build a firm-worker model that explains these patterns and finally test a theoretical prediction of the model, finding robust support. Check it out here

• NEW VERSION! A new version of the paper "Saving behavior and the intergenerational allocation of leisure time" with Xavier Raurich has been produced and submitted to a journal. This new version can be read here. The paper is currently R&R.

• NEW FUNDING! The project “Working from Home: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications,” for which I am Principal Investigator, has received a €50,000 grant under a competitive call of the Fondazione Banco di Sardegna.

• NEW! Our paper "Spatial Polarisation" has been awarded with the Royal Economic Society prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal in 2023! Read the motivation of the prize here and watch the video where the paper is explained by Elisa Dienesch here