Academic Publications
"Do Capital Grants Improve Microenterprise Productivity?" with Laurin Janes and Simon Quinn (2025). Economic Journal, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf042
Previous version circulated as CSAE Working Paper WPS 2019-13.
"Working from Home after COVID-19: Evidence from Job Postings in 20 Countries" with Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Alexandre Judes, Cyrille Schwellnus, and Tara Sinclair (2025). Labour Economics, forthcoming.
Earlier version circulated as "Will it stay or will it go? Analysing developments in telework during Covid-19 using online job postings data". OECD Productivity Working Papers No. 30, December 2021.
Press coverage: Bloomberg, Le Figaro, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Les Echos, BFM TV, Trends Tendances, Irish Examiner, Irish Times, RTE Ireland, Limattaler Zeitung
Blogs: VoxEU, OECD ECOscope, Indeed Hiring Lab
"Unlocked Potential: Work-from-Home Job Postings in 20 OECD countries" with Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Alexandre Judes, Cyrille Schwellnus, and Tara Sinclair (2023). AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113, 604-608.
"Currency Shocks and Firm Behaviour in Ethiopia and Uganda" with Tewodros Gebrewolde, Pramila Krishnan and Andualem T Mengistu (2022). Journal of African Economies, 31, Issue Supplement 1. i59-i82.
"Gold Mining and Proto-Urbanization: Recent Evidence from Ghana" with Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi (2017). Journal of Economic Geography, 17(5), 975-1008. [World Bank Working Paper] [Appendix]
Working Papers
"Worker skills or firm wage-setting practices? Decomposing wage inequality across 20 OECD countries" with with Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Hijzen, Cyrille Schnellnus, Erling Barth, Antoine Bertheau, Wen-Hao Chen, Richard Fabling, Priscilla Fialho, Jonathan Garita, Andrei Gorshkov, Katarzyna Grabska-Romagosa, Antton Haramboure, Ryo Kambayashi, Valerie Lankester, Timo Leidecker, Balazs Murakőzy, Oskar Nordström Skans, Satu Nurmi, Vladimir Peciar, Capucine Riom, Duncan H.W. Roth, Catalina Sandoval, Balazs Stadler, Richard Upward, Wouter Zwyen . February 2025 R&R ILR Review.
Previous version circulated as IZA Working Paper No. 13212 "Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The role of firms in wage inequality".
"Learning by Managing: A Field Experiment With Aspiring Entrepreneurs" with Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps and Simon Quinn. July 2020.
Previous versions circulated as NBER Working Paper No. 26035 and CSAE Working Paper WPS 2019-11.
Blog: VoxDev
"Microenterprises and the Lure of Wage Work: Theory and Evidence from Mexican Export Manufacturing." March 2019.
"Self-Employment, Capital and Job Search: Evidence from a Structural Model" with Simon Quinn.
Contributions to OECD Publications
"OECD Economic Surveys: Colombia 2024", September 2024.
"OECD Economic Surveys: Peru 2023", September 2023.
"OECD Economic Surveys: Israel 2023". April 2023.
"The role of firm performance and wage-setting practices in wage inequality" with Chiara Criscuolo, Antton Haramboure, Alexander Hijzen and Cyrille Schwellnus. Chapter 4 in OECD Employment Outlook 2022. September 2022.
"The role of firms in wage inequality: Policy lessons from a large-scale cross-country study". Contributed to writing of Chapters 1, 3 and 4. December 2021.
Blog: OECD ECOscope
"Flattening the Unemployment Curve: Policies to Support Workers' Income and Promote a Speedy Labour Market Recovery" with Balazs Stadler and Cyrille Schwellnus. OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (Covid-19), June 2020.
Appeared also as Issue Note in July 2020 OECD Economic Outlook.
Press coverage: Financial Times
Blogs: OECD ECOscope, CD Howe Institute