- WORKING PAPERS
Job protection deregulation, productivity and the distribution of income: firm-level evidence from the Italian Jobs Act (with Guido Franco).
OECD Productivity Working Papers, No. 37. July 2025.
It investigates the impact of job protection deregulation on firms' productivity and the labor share, leveraging a size-based cutoff in the eligibility criteria of a pivotal 2014 labor market reform in Italy. It finds that the reform increased total factor productivity by 1% in treated firms relative to control firms, on average, with capital owners benefitting disproportionately more.
Op-eds: LaVoce.info.
SSRN version: here.
Occupational reallocation and mismatch in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: Cross-country evidence from an online job site (with Antton Haramboure, Lea Samek, Cyrille Schwellnus, Allison Shrivastava and Tara Sinclair)
OECD Productivity Working Papers, No. 35. 2024.
It analyzes labour market reallocation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic using novel data on employers’ job postings and jobseekers’ clicks across 19 countries from the online job site Indeed. It finds that occupational mismatch initially increased but was back to pre-pandemic levels at the end of 2022 as employers and workers adjusted to structural changes.
Employment Dynamics Across Firms during COVID-19: the Role of Job Retention Schemes (with Sara Calligaris, Hélia Costa, Chiara Criscuolo, Lilas Demmou, Guido Franco and Rudy Verlhac).
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1788. 2023.
It analyzes employment reallocation across firms during the COVID-19 pandemic and role of job retention schemes (JRS). It finds that JRS cushioned the effect of the crisis on employment growth and firm survival without distorting the productivity-enhancing nature of reallocation.
Op-eds: VoxEU.org.
Sticky Floors or Glass Ceilings? The Role of Human Capital, Working Time Flexibility and Discrimination in the Gender Wage Gap (with Cyrille Schwellnus and Balazs Stadler).
R&R at Labour Economics.
OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 1668. 2021.
It shows that the gender wage gap is around 15% on average across 25 European countries and studies its drivers. It finds that "sticky floors" related to social norms and discrimination account for 40% of the gap, while the "glass ceiling" related to the motherhood penalty accounts for 60%.
Op-eds: VoxEU.org
Media: Expresso.pt; NYT
How Healthcare Congestion Increases Covid-19 Mortality: Evidence from Lombardy, Italy (with Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó).
medRxiv Working Paper. 2020.
Using distance to the ICU as proxy for access to emergency care, it argues that healthcare congestion may have substantially increased mortality rates during Lombardy's first COVID-19 wave, by about a third in the average municipality, which is about 15 minutes driving away from the ICU.
Mitigation Policies and Emergency Care Management within Europe's Ground Zero for COVID-19 (with Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó).
SSRN Working Paper. 2020.
It shows empirically that the shutdown of non-essential service activities was very effective in reducing mortality during Italy's first COVID-19 wave and it argues that improving pre-hospital emergency services and building ambulance capacity is key to avoid healthcare system congestion.
Op-eds: VoxEU.org, Nada Es Gratis
WORK IN PROGRESS
Central Bank Data Dependency (with Abdul Abiad)
A New Database of Employment Protection Legislation (with Davide Furceri) draft and data coming soon.
The value of commitment: sustainable investment fund flows following climate change framework legislation (with Filippo Maria D'Arcangelo, Mauro Pisu and Shu Tian).