Working Papers & Work in Progress
Labor Market Dynamics and Geographical Reallocation (with Salvatore Lo Bello and Francesca Subioli) - Bank of Italy Working Paper no. 1430, 2023
The green transition and the Italian labour market (with Fabrizio Colonna, Domenico Depalo and Graziella Mendicino) - Bank of Italy Occasional paper no. 811, 2023
Short-time work, its replacement rate and labour mobility (with Emanuele Ciani and Francesco Manaresi) - draft available upon request
The employment activated by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and its characteristics (with Luigi Guiso, Matteo Paradisi and Andrea Petrella) - Bank of Italy Occasional paper no. 747, 2023
Quality and selection in regulated professions (with Eleonora Brandimarti, Michele Pellizzari, Giovanni Pica) - CEPR Discussion paper no. 15674, 2021
Recovering delayed treatment effects with serially correlated shocks in panel data (with Doug Miller and Jessamyn Schaller) - draft coming soon!
Local labor markets adjustments to oil booms and busts - Link to most recent draft, 2017
The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States (with Giovanni Peri) - IZA working paper no. 9436, 2015 (data and codes); featured in Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy
Publications
Job flows and reallocation during the recovery (with Salvatore Lattanzio and Domenico Depalo) - Labour economics, 83, 102399, 2023 (previously circulating as Bank of Italy Occasional paper no. 704)
Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain (with Massimo Anelli, Giuseppe Ippedico and Giovanni Peri) - AEJ: Applied economics, 15(2), 218-52, 2023 (previously circulating as IZA working paper "Does emigration drain entrepreneurs? " and "Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation" - NBER working paper no. 26055, Bank of Italy working paper no. 1240)
Unsafe jobs, labour market risk and social protection (with Tito Boeri, Alessandro Caiumi and Marco Paccagnella), Economic Policy, 2022 (previously circulating as IZA and OECD working paper "New hazardous jobs and worker reallocation"). The data are available here
The (little) reallocation potential of workers most hit by the Covid-19 crisis (with Adele Grompone and Francesca Modena), Politica economica/Journal of Economic Policy, 2: 151-186, 2021 (Bank of Italy Occasional Paper no. 597)
Italian workers at risk during the COVID-19 epidemic (with Teresa Barbieri and Sergio Scicchitano), Italian Economic Journal, 8: 175-195, 2021 (Bank of Italy Occasional Paper no. 569, also available as INAPP WP and on SSRN and GLO)
Computerization and immigration: Theory and evidence from the United States (with Ahmed Rahman and Giovanni Peri), Canadian Journal of Economics 53(4): 1457-1494, 2020 (NBER working paper no. 23935 updated; featured on VoxEU) - winner of the 2020 CJE Johnson Prize
The evolution of the occupational structure in Italy, 2007–2017, Social Indicators Research, 152: 673–704, 2020 (Bank of Italy Occasional Papers no. 478)
Internal mobility: The greater responsiveness of foreign-born to economic conditions (with Giovanni Peri), Journal of Economic Perspectives 34(3): 77-98, 2020
Immigrants, labor market dynamics and adjustment to shocks in the euro area (with Francesco D'Amuri and Giovanni Peri), IMF Economic Review, 67(3), 528-572, 2019 (NBER working paper no. 25091, Bank of Italy working paper no. 1195, invited paper at IMF-Bank of Ireland conference "Euro at 20"; featured on VoxEU, neodemos)
Did California Paid Family Leave impact infant health? (with Ariel Pihl) - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 38(1), 155-180, 2018
Book Contributions
The Great Recession and its consequences for household incomes in 21 countries (with Stephen Jenkins, Andrea Brandolini, John Micklewright and Brian Nolan), in "The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income", in S. Jenkins, A. Brandolini, J. Micklewright, B. Nolan (eds). Oxford University Press, 2012 - link
Other Contributions and Policy Reports
Digitalisation: Channels, impacts and implications for monetary policy in the euro area (prepared for the ECB Strategy review) - ECB Occasional paper no. 266, 2021
Working from home before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence (with Sara Formai) - Bank of Italy COVID-19 Notes, 2021 (in Italian; please email me for the English version)
Opportunity lost: The economic benefit of retaining foreign-born students in local economies (with Giovanni Peri and Sara McElmurry) - Brief for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 2016
The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States (with Giovanni Peri) - Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy no. 43, 2016
Paid Family Leave, job protection and low take-up among low-wage workers (with Ariel Pihl) - Policy brief for the Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis, 2015; featured on The Los Angeles Times
The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups (with Matthias Dolls, Werner Eichhorst, Thomas Leoni, Andreas Peichl). Intereconomics, 47(4), 217-223, 2012 (IZA DP 6080)
Family ties and access to licensed professions in Italy (with Michele Pellizzari, Paola Monti, Giovanna Labartino, Davide Malacrino and Andrea Catania) - Report for Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, 2011 (please email me for the most recent draft)
The role of the social protection as economic stabiliser: Lessons from the current crisis (with Werner Eichhorst et al.) - Policy Report for the European Parliament and IZA Research Report n. 31, 2010