Research
Research
Business Taxes, Worker Reallocation, and the Disruption of Worker Careers. with Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg
Gender, Careers and Peers' Gender Mix, with Elena Ashtari Tafti and Tanya Surovtseva
Awarded the Visitinps Fellowship, granting access to Italian social security data through the VisitINPS scholars programme
Female-targeted hiring subsidies, firm learning, and women’s employment, with Lorenzo Incoronato and Anna Raute (submitted)
Awarded the Visitinps Fellowship, granting access to Italian social security data through the VisitINPS scholars programme
Presented at CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2026 and NBER SI Gender 2026
Local Area Size and job to job mobility
Awarded the ADR UK Fellowship
The Careers of Women Inventors, with Alice Kügler, Klea Ibrahimi and Simon Janssen
The City Size Earnings Premium Under Non-random Moves: Evidence from Five European Economies with Henry Overman and Clara Santamaria
The Drivers of Labour Market Inequality: Employer or Education Providers? with Frederic Denker, Carlo Giuffrè and Sandra McNally
Gendered Leadership: The Effect of Female CEOs on Firm Performance, with Michele Giannola, Libertad González and Tanya Surovtseva
Accessing Italian social security data through the VisitINPS scholars programme
Spatial Productivity Disparities in Great Britain, with Hélène Donnat, Henry Overman and Krishan Shah (CEP DP)
Economica (forthcoming)
Abstract: We study productivity disparities across metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in Great Britain. Spatial disparities in productivity are large and persistent. Using a development accounting framework, we show that differences in area size and in the spatial distribution of human and business capital are key explanatory factors. A combination of area size and human capital explains 30 percent of the productivity variance, increasing to 43 to 57 percent once we add measures of business capital stocks. Applying our framework to a case study of Greater Manchester, we show that large increases in both types of capital are needed to narrow productivity disparities with London, illustrating the scale of the challenge for policies aimed at reducing spatial inequality.