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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.
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NEW WORKING PAPER! (CEPR DP 21480) In "The Anatomy of Polarization: Evidence from Worker Flows", together with Elisa Dienesch, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Alessio Moro we use longitudinal French administrative data (1984–2021) to show that employment polarization after 1994 reflects a collapse in the entry margin into routine jobs rather than mass displacement of incumbents. Routine-to-abstract upgrading flows remain large and stable throughout, and a substantial share is driven by non-college workers. Permanent link for latest version here
NEW PUBLICATION! The paper "Saving behavior and the intergenerational allocation of leisure time" joint with Xavier Raurich has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Macroeconomics. Online open access version here.
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
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