Joined the Institute as a full-time professor in September 2013, coming from the University of Bologna, where he was a Professor in Economics. Before that he taught at Bocconi University (1992-1996) and was first a Jean Monnet Fellow (1997) and then a full-time professor (1997-2006) at the EUI.
He is a Starting Fellow of the European Association of Labor Economics (EALE) and a Research Fellow of CEPR, CESifo, IZA.

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Fields of expertise

Labour economics Economics of education Economics of the family Law and economics Group interactions and network effects Intergenerational social mobility and income inequality European labour markets, rigidity and flexibility Causality in econometrics Experiments and behavioural economics Economics of organisations and personnel Gender studies Income distribution, living standards and social mobility Labour economics, industrial relations and social insurance Microeconometrics and causal inference