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 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

• 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 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.