Research

A complete list of my papers is also available in my ideas page and in my google scholar profile

 Working Papers and Selected Work in Progress 

• Like father like son...like mother like daughter. New facts on the intergenerational transmission of occupation and the gender pay gap, with Giulia Bovini and Lucia Rizzica

• The Role of Schools for Parental Labour Supply, with Giulia Bovini, Antonio Dalla Zuanna and Maria De Paola. Awarded the VisitINPS fellowship in gender economics.

• The Role of Fields of Study and Firms Characteristics for the Early Career Gender Pay Gap, with Giulia Bovini and Lucia Rizzica

• Mom'out: Employment after Childbirth and Firm-level Responses, with Francesca Carta,  Alessandra Casarico and Salvatore Lattanzio. Submitted. Awarded the VisitINPS fellowship in gender economics.

• The Ins and Outs of the Gender Employment Gap: Assessing the Role of Fertility, with Salvatore Lo Bello. Awarded the VisitINPS fellowship in gender economics.

• The Short and Medium Term Effects of More Time at School on Learning and Maternal Labour Supply, with Niccolò Cattadori, Giulia Bovini and Paolo Sestito. Submitted.

• The Long-run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption, with Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Enrico Sette and Eliana Viviano. Revision requested AEJ: Macro.

Publications

• Natural Unemployment and Activity Rates: Flow-based Determinants and Implications for Price Dynamics, with Francesco D'Amuri, Elisa Guglielminetti and Salvatore Lo Bello, Economic Policy, vol. 38(116), pp:865–898.

• The Forward-Looking Effect of Increasing the Full Retirement Age, with Francesca Carta, Economic Journal, 134(657), pp: 165-192, 2024. Media Coverage: lavoce.info, il Sole 24 ore, PMI.

• Slack and Prices during Covid-19: Accounting for Labor Market Participation, with Francesco D'Amuri, Elisa Guglielminetti and Salvatore Lo Bello, Labour Economics, 75, 2022.  Media coverage: Corriere della Sera.

• STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum: Does Early Exposure to Science Matter? [online Appendix],  Journal of Human Resources, 2023, vol. 58(6), pp: 1914-1947. Awarded the Ezio Tarantelli prize. Media coverage: CentrePiece. 

• Multitask Agents and Incentives: the Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors [online Appendix], Economic Journal, 131(636), pp: 1643–1681, 2021.

• Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences across Countries [online Appendix], with Federico Rossi, Journal of the European Economic Association, 19 (2), pp: 1364-1405, 2021. Media coverage: Fondazione Pirelli, VoxEU.

• Reallocation and the role of firm composition effects on aggregate wage dynamics,  with Effrosyni Adamopoulou,  Emmanuele Bobbio and Federico Giorgi, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, vol 8 (1), pp: 2-24, 2019.

• You've Come a Long Way, Baby. Husbands' Commuting Time and Family  Labour Supply,  with Francesca Carta, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 69, pp: 25-37, 2018. Media coverage: VoxEU, The Atlantic- City lab, Lavoce.info, il Sole 24 ore. 

• Wage Rigidities and Business Cycle Fluctuations: A linked employer-employee analysis,  with Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Emmanuele Bobbio and Federico Giorgi, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016.

• Immigration, Housing Discrimination and Employment, with Tito Boeri, Michele Pellizzari and Eleonora Patacchini, Economic Journal, vol. 125 (586), pp: F82–F114, 2015. Media coverage: VoxEU.

Policy Papers and Notes

• Labour income inequality and in-work poverty: a comparison across euro area countries, with G. Bovini, E. Ciani and S. Romano, Bank of Italy Occasional Papers, n. 806, 2023. Media coverage: il Sole 24 Ore, Lavoce.info. Submitted.

• Women, labour markets and economic growth, with F. Carta, L. Rizzica and E. Viviano, Bank of Italy Workshops and Conferences, n. 26, 2023. This is the final report of a 3-year project on women in the Italian economy (here the link to the final event webpage, the Youtube video of the event is available here). Media coverage: la Repubblica, il Sole 24 ore, la Stampa, il Manifesto, Reuters, VoxEU, Lavoce.info.

• La crescita dell’economia italiana e il divario Nord-Sud: trend storici e prospettive alla luce dei recenti scenari demografici, with A. Locatelli, G. Papini e R. Torrini, Bank of Italy Occasional Papers, n. 683, 2022. Media coverage: lavoce.info, la Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.

• Employment and the conduct of monetary policy in the euro area, (eds. C. Brand, G. Coenen, R. Lydon, M. Obstbaum and D. Sondermann), ECB Occasional Papers, n. 275, 2021. 

• The impact of the Covid-19 shock on labour income inequality: Evidence from Italy, with  Francesca Carta, Bank of Italy Occasional Papers, n. 606, 2021.  Media coverage: la Repubblica, MF, lavoce.info, Menabò Eticaeconomia. Cited by the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (15:20).

• Le misure a tutela di coloro che svolgono attività di impresa nel 2020: un'analisi integrata del bonus di 600 euro e dei contributi a fondo perduto, Nota Banca d'Italia, Agenzia delle Entrate e INPS, 2021.

• Alcune evidenze sulla modalità di svolgimento della didattica a distanza e sugli effetti per le famiglie italiane, with Giulia Bovini, Nota Covid, 2021. Media coverage: lavoce.info

• Job-to-job flows and wage cyclicality in France and Italy, with Clémence Berson and Eliana Viviano , Bank of Italy Occasional Papers, 2020. Media coverage: Il Foglio (14/01/2022), lavoce.info

• The dynamics of the Italian labour force participation rate: determinants and implications for the employment and unemployment rate, Bank of Italy Occasional Papers, n. 396, 2017.

Chapters in edited volumes and other publications

• Discussion of "Labor Market Trends and the Changing Value of Time" by J. Boerma and L. Karabarbounis, with Francesca Carta, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol 115, pp: 1-3, 2020.

• Il tempo pieno e la dispersione dei voti,  with Giulia Bovini and Paolo Sestito. In "I dati INVALSI: uno strumento per la ricerca" edited by Patrizia Falzetti. Franco Angeli eds, 2018.