Research

Publications

1. Natural Unemployment and Activity Rates: Flow-based Determinants and Implications for Price Dynamics (with F. D'Amuri, M. De Philippis and E. Guglielminetti)  Economic Policy (2023), Volume 38, Issue 116, October 2023, Pages 865–898 .

2. Like Father, Like Son: Occupational Choice, Intergenerational Persistence and Misallocation (with Iacopo Morchio). Quantitative Economics 13.2 (2022): 629-679. 

3. Slack and Prices during Covid-19: Accounting for Labor Market Participation (with F. D'Amuri, M. De Philippis and E. Guglielminetti). Labour Economics (2022): 102129.  

Working Papers

1. The Concentration Channel of the Minimum Wage (with Lorenzo Pesaresi)   Submitted

2. Workforce on the Move: the Asymmetric Impact of Job Creation and Job Destruction (with Gaetano Basso and Francesca Subioli)  R&R at Journal of Labor Economics

3. Employment Prospects Across Generations and the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings (with Iacopo Morchio) Accepted at Scandinavian Journal of Economics

4. The Ins and Outs of the Gender Employment Gap: Assessing the Role of Fertility (with Marta De Philippis)    

5. The Optimal Allocation of Talent Across Generations (with Iacopo Morchio)    

6. Structural Transformation and Growth: the role of Income Distribution

7. Employment Prospects, Informal Job Search and Labor Productivity Differentials Across Italian Regions (with Iacopo Morchio)

Work in progress

1. Wage Posting meets Oligopolistic Competition: Dissecting Product and Labor Market Power (with Lorenzo Pesaresi)

2. Who moves across regions? Accounting for Heterogeneity in Geographical Relocation (with Gaetano Basso, Alessandro Cerusico and Andrea Salvanti)

3. Inspecting the Time Aggregation Bias (with Gaetano Basso and Andrea Salvanti)

4. Occupational Choice and Family Background: the role of Borrowing Constraints (with Jan Stuhler)

5.  Do Firms Suffer From the Child Penalty?  (with Andrea Del Pizzo and Marta De Philippis)

Policy work & other work

1. Accounting for the Inflation Burst in the Euro Area: a Re-Appraisal of the Bernanke and Blanchard Model (with Domenico Depalo), Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 871/2024 

2. Some Considerations on the Phillips Curve After the Pandemic (with Eliana Viviano), Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 842/2024

3. Social Shock Absorbers in Italy: A Comparison with the Main European Countries (with Francesca Carta, Antonio Dalla Zuanna and Salvatore Lattanzio), Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 697/2022 (in Italian)

4. An assessment of the potential impact of Covid-19 on the Italian demographic structure (with Giacomo Caracciolo and Dario Pellegrino), Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 622/2021 (in Italian)

5. CIG: historical evolution, limitation and features, Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n.602/2021 (in Italian)

6. From Ghana to America: the Skill Content of Jobs and Economics Development (with Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta and Hernan Winkler),  Policy Research Working Paper Series 8758, The World Bank. 

7. The Skill Content of Occupations Across Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Harmonized Data (with Emanuele Dicarlo, Sebastian Monroy-Taborda, Ana Maria Oviedo, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Indhira Vanessa Santos), IZA DP No. 10224