FRANCESCO VONA   

Welcome!

I am Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Milan and Director of the program 'Labour in the low-carbon transition'  of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

I am also Research Fellow at the OFCE Sciences-Po and the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, Visiting Professor at the LSE Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and co-Editor of the journal Environmental and Resource Economics.

Current research interests: labor market and innovation impacts of climate policies; the economics of the just energy transition; measuring green production, jobs and skills; firm-level analyses of emission dynamics; labour market and environmenal impacts of technological transitions; political economy of the energy transition; health impacts of climate change; critical minerals and innovation.

New: Saussay, A., Sato, M., Vona, F., ‘Emerging skills and wage gaps in the low-carbon transition: evidence from online job vacancy data,’ forthcoming Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

New:   Hernandez, I., Verdolini, E., Steckel, J., Tavoni, M., Vona, F., ‘The Economics of the Just Transition,’ Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 20(2).

New: Bastianin, A., Castelnovo, P., Frattini, F., Vona, F.; 'Induced Innovation in Critical Mineral Saving Technologies,' submitted.

New: Guerini, M., Marin, G., Vona, F., 'Can Easing Financial Constraints Reduce Carbon Emissions? Evidence from a Large Sample of French Companies,' submitted. 

New version: Valenti, G., Vona, F., ‘Hot wages: how do heat waves change the earning distribution?.’ FEEM working paper, submitted.

New:  Cass, L., Frattini, F. F., Saussay, A., Sato, M., & Vona, F. (2026). ‘Returns to green tasks in Europe: evidence from online job vacancies,’ FEEM working paper, submitted.

New:  Frattini, F., Vona, F., Bontadini, F., Colantone, I., 2025. ‘The local job multipliers of green industrialization,’ FEEM working paper, submitted.

New: Cavallotti, E., Colantone, I., Stanig, P., Vona, F., 2025. ‘Green Collars at the Voting Booth: material interest and environmental voting,’ R&R.