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CONTACT
Department of Economics and Management
University of Pisa
Via Cosimo Ridolfi 10
Primary email: costanza.biavaschi@unipi.it
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor, University of Pisa, 2023 - present
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, October 2011 - Rutgers University , USA
M.Sc. in Economics, September 2006 - Warwick University, UK
B.Sc. in Economics, Statistics and Social Sciences - Bocconi University, Italy
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Economic History, Migration.
PUBLICATIONS
Taking the Skill Bias out of Global Migration, with M. Burzynski, B. Elsner and J. Machado, Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142.
South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa, with A. M. Mayda, M. Mendola, and G. Facchini, forthcoming Journal of Economic Geography 2018.
The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization, with C. Giulietti and Z. Siddique, Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116.
Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration, Labour Economics, 2016, 38(1), 59-80.
Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left Behind, with C. Giulietti and K. F. Zimmermann. Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9(4), 403-438.
Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:7.
Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training, with W. Eichhorst, C. Giulietti, M. J. Kendzia, A. Muravyev, J. Pieters, N. Rodriguez-Planas, R. Schmidl, K. F. Zimmermann. Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157.
The Labor Demand was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957, Economics Letters, 2013, 118(3), 531-534.
WORKING PAPERS
Social Networks and (Political) Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration, with C. Giulietti, and Y. Zenou, CEPR Discussion Paper 16182.
Let's be Selectvie about Migrant Self-Selection, with B. Elsner, IZA DP 7865, December 2013.
Fifty years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957. IZA DP 7258, February 2013.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Helsinki, September 2017 - August 2019
Visiting Scholar, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, March 2017 - April 2017.
Visiting Researcher, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University, Beijing, China, March, 2012 - April, 2012.
Visiting Researcher, Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University, 2008 - 2009
Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 2007 - 2011
Researcher, GDN/Ippr, 2009
Instructor, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 2007 - 2011
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 2007 - 2011