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Introducing myself:
I am Professor of Economics at the University of Turin and a Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto.
I have held a number of academic leadership and institutional roles. I am currently serving my second term as Director of the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS), which has been recognized as a Department of Excellence by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. I also direct the Master’s program in Welfare and Labor: Theory and Data Analysis (WEDA), and have previously directed the Master’s in Active Labor Market Policies, in partnership with Agenzia Piemonte Lavoro. I previously served on the Board of Directors of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, as a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Torino, and as Director of the Bachelor's degree in Economics (formerly "Economia e Commercio"). I currently sit on the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Labour Economics.
My academic and professional work has also involved extensive interaction with policy institutions. I have worked with the World Bank, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the National Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (INAPP), the Italian Commission on Poverty and Social Exclusion, and the Italian Institute for Social Security (INPS), where I have been involved in several research projects using administrative data. I have coordinated several competitively funded research projects on labor markets, firms, and global value chains. Before joining the University of Turin, I was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and at LABORatorio Revelli. I am also affiliated with the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, IRCrES-CNR and CIRET.
My research focuses on labor economics, firms, and institutions. I am particularly interested in how labor market institutions and firms’ strategies affect workers' welfare, inequality, firms' productivity, internationalization, and economic resilience. My work has been published in leading international journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of International Business Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Economic Journal, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Essex. At the University of Torino, I teach undergraduate and post-graduate courses in labor economics, industrial relations, and empirical methods for policy evaluation.
News
F. Devicienti appointed as a Board Member (Executive Committee) of the Italian Association for Labor Economics, 2025-28.
The Esomas department confirmed as one of Italy's Departments of Excellence by the Ministry of University and Research for the 2023-2027 period.
July 2023: a new project titled: "Unprecedented shocks to G-local value chains and labor markets" receives funds by MUR (€280,000). PRIN 2022; PI: F Devicienti.
May 2023: Francesco Devicienti appointed in the Board of Directors of the Collegio Carlo Alberto for the 2023-25 period.
Jan 2023: a new project on "Global Value Chains in Italy and Their Effects on Firms and Workers" (PI: F Devicienti) funded under the VisitINPS Fellowship (type B) program, INPS, Rome.
Events
Cicli di incontri e seminari su Welfare e Lavoro - promossi dal Master in Welfare e Lavoro: Fondamenti teorici e Data Analysis (WEDA), coordina F. Devicienti.
Inaugurazione Aula Franco Reviglio. Scuola di managment ed Economia, 4 Maggio 2026
Latest working papers
"Employment Protection legislation and Mismatch: Evidence from a Reform", by F Berton, F Devicienti, S Grubanov-Boskovic, conditionally accepted, Labor Economics.
"The Impact of US-China Trade War on a Bystander Country: Firm-level evidence from Italy", by Camila Campos, F Devicienti, E Grinza, A Manelli, D Vannoni.
Selected publications:
"The Green Frontier: Circular Economy and Firm Resilience in Multinational Enterprises and Internationally Engaged Firms", by Ibrahim Shaheen, F Devicienti, A Manello, D Vannoni, Journal of International Business Studies, 2026.
“The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation on the Internationalization of SMEs and their Participation in Global Value Chains”, by T Barbieri T, F Devicienti, A Manello, D Vannoni, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2026.
"Firm's margins of adjustment to wage growth. The case of Italian collective bargaining", by F Devicienti and B Fanfani, Economica, 2025.
"The Gender Gap in Career Trajectories: Do Firms Matter?", by David Card, F Devicienti, MC Rossi, Andrea Weber, NBER WP 33730 (featured NBER WP, May 2025), Italian Economic Journal, 2025.
"Employer Cooperation, Productivity and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-firm Formal Network Agreements", by F Devicienti, E Grinza, A Manello, D Vannoni, Economica, 2025.
"The Collective Voice of Unions and Workplace Training in Italy: New Insights from Mixed Methods", by F Berton, A Carreri, F Devicienti, A Ricci, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023.
"You can’t be what you can’t see: The role of gender in the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship", by Noemi Oggero, F Devicienti, MC Rossi, and D Vannoni, The Review of Income and Wealth, 2023.
"How Entry into Parenthood Shapes Gender Role Attitudes: New Evidence from Longitudinal UK Data", by E Grinza, F Devicienti, MC Rossi, and D Vannoni, Feminist Economics, 2022.
"Women on Board and Firm Export Attitudes. Evidence from Italy", by F Carbonero, F Devicienti, A Manello, and D Vannoni, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021.
"Networking: a Business for Women", by A Manello, M Cisi, F Devicienti and D Vannoni, Small Business Economics, 2020.
"Why do Firms (Dis)Like Part-Time Contracts?" by F Devicienti, E Grinza and D Vannoni, Labour Economics, 2020.
"The advantages of formalizing networks: New evidence from Italian SMEs", with M Cisi, A Manello and D Vannoni, Small Business Economics, 2020.
"Collective bargaining and the evolution of wage inequality in Italy", with Bernardo Fanfani and A Maida, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019.
“What are the benefits of having more female leaders? Evidence from the use of part-time work in Italy”, with E Grinza, A Manello and D Vannoni, Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2019. (media coverage: read here).
"Identifying sorting in practice", with Cristian Bartolucci and Ignacio Monzon, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018.
“The impact of part-time work on firm productivity: evidence from Italy”, with Elena Grinza and Davide Vannoni, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2018.
“Temporary employment, demand volatility and unions: firm-level evidence", with Paolo Naticchioni and Andrea Ricci, Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2018. (media coverage: read here).
“Technical efficiency, unions and decentralized labor contracts. New empirical evidence”, with Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni, European Journal of Operational Research, 2017. (media coverage: read here and here)
“Rent sharing, hold-up and wages: evidence from matched employer-employee data”, with David Card and Agata Maida, Review of Economic Studies, 2014.
“Are temporary jobs a port of entry into permanent employment? Evidence from matched employer-employee data”, with Fabio Berton and L. Pacelli, International Journal of Manpower, 2011.
“Estimating poverty persistence in Britain”, Empirical Economics, 2011.
“Shapley-value decompositions of changes in wage distributions”, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010.
“The resurrection of the Italian wage curve”, with A. Maida and Lia Pacelli, Economics Letters, 2010.
“Are informality and poverty dynamically interrelated? Evidence from Argentina”, with F. Groisman and A. Poggi, in Research on Economic Inequality, 2010.
“Downward wage rigidity in Italy: micro-based measures and implications”, with Agata Maida and Paolo Sestito, The Economic Journal, 2007. (media coverage: read here)
Contacts:
Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche (ESOMAS)
Scuola di Management ed Economia, Università di Torino
Corso Unione Sovietica 218bis, 10134 TORINO (Italy),
Tel: +39 011 6706288
email: francesco.devicienti@unito.it
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