Kumasi, Ghana
Working Papers
NEW! Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment (with G. Abebe, S. Caria, M. Fafchamos, S. Franklin, F. Shilpi, and S. Quinn).
NEW! As Long as They Are Cheap: Experimental Evidence on the Demand for Migrant Workers (with M. Caselli).
UPDATED!
Promoting social distancing in a pandemic: Beyond the good intentions (with S. Zaccagni).
Sceptical employers: Experimental evidence on biased beliefs constraining firm growth (with S. Caria). R&R,
Review of Economics and Statistics.
Published Articles
Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City (with G. Abebe, S. Caria, M. Fafchamps, S. Franklin and S. Quinn). Review of Economic Studies, 2020.
Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness? (with A.S. Caria). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018.
Entrepreneurship versus joblessness: explaining the rise in self-employment (with L. Haywood). Journal of Development Economics, 2016.
Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa. (with W. F. Maloney, B. Rijkers and M. Sarrias). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015.
Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market. Labour Economics, 2014.
The Returns to Formality and Informality in Urban Africa (with A. Kerr, N. Rankin, J. Sandefur and F. Teal). Labour Economics, 2011.
Books and Book Chapters
Job quality in emerging economies: A bird's eye view through the lens of the OECD Job Quality framework, in Oxford University Press Handbook of Job Quality. (with S. Cazes and B. Menyhert). forthcoming.
Un breve panorama del empleo informal en las economías emergentes, in Informalidad: implicaciones legislativas y políticas públicas para reducirla. Instituto Belisario Domínguez, Mexico (with S. Cazes and B. Menyhert). 2018.
Working toward Better Pay: Earning Dynamics in Ghana and Tanzania (with A. Kerr, P. Paci and B. Rjikers), World Bank Publications, The World Bank, number 18553, April 2014.
OECD Publications
How technology and globalisation are transforming the labour market, in OECD Employment Outlook 2017, OECD Publishing, Paris. (with A. Salvatori)
Closing gender gaps in the labour markets of emerging economies: The unfinished job, in OECD Employment Outlook 2016, OECD Publishing, Paris.
OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies: Latvia 2016, OECD Publishing, Paris. (with H. Immervoll and J. Chaloff)
Enhancing job quality in emerging economies, in OECD Employment Outlook 2015, OECD Publishing, Paris. (with S. Cazes and B. Menyhert)
How good is your job? Measuring and assessing job quality, in OECD Employment Outlook 2014, OECD Publishing, Paris. (with A. Hijzen, A. Saint-Martin, H. Inanc, and B. Menyhert)
Other Publications
Il problema dell'Italia: passare dal Brain Drain al Brain Flow (with M. Di Simplicio, N. Tsevelekos and A. Zocco), Aspenia 58: La Forza delle Idee, Aspenia Online - Global Issues - October 2012.
Qui o si fa l'Europa o si muore (book chapter), Italia 110, Aug 2012.
Plundered Nations?: Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction (assisted Prof. Paul Collier in drafting the chapter on Nigeria), 2011.
Fertile ground: boasting cocoa production among Ghanaian smallholders (with M. Eberhardt), CSAE Briefing Paper, No 01, 2009
Accra, Ghana