Publications
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms
with Fernando Saltiel
Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size
Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42:2, 549-589.
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]
Coverage: [WirtschaftsWoche] [IZA Newsroom]
The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers’ Long-Term Skills
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5): 1028-1045.
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]
Non-technical summary: [Nada es Gratis blog entry]
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment
The Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82(1), 126-174.
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]
[Data-driven teaching of Japanese American Internment to 8th graders]
Who Gets their First Job at a Large Firm? The Distinct Roles of Education and Skills
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111: 465-69.
[PDF, Replication, Journal Link]
The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results
with David A. Jaeger, Krzysztof Karbownik, Marta Martínez-Matute, John Nunley, R. Alan Seals, and 37 others
Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 2021, Issue 79: 152-217.
[PDF, Journal Link] [IZA DP No. 14419]
Non-technical summary: [Nada es Gratis blog entry]
Working Papers
The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019
with Shmuel San
Revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association
[PDF, updated June 2024] [CESifo WP No. 11177, May 2024] [IZA DP No. 16389, Aug. 2023]
Coverage: [La Mañana]
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
with Leah Boustan, Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, and 35 others
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review
[PDF, February 2025] [NBER WP No. 33558, Mar. 2025] [CEPR DP No. 20003, Mar. 2025] [IZA DP No. 17711, Feb. 2025]
Non-technical summary: [VoxEU column]
One Cohort at a Time: Young Workers’ Outcomes and the Declining Gender Pay Gap
with Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi
VisitINPS Fellowship Program
[PDF, updated March 2025] [IZA DP No. 17621, Jan. 2025] [NBER WP No. 32612, June 2024]
Coverage: [Marginal Revolution] [The Great Gender Divergence] [CNBC] [Bloomberg] [Fortune] [El Confidencial] [allnews.ch] [Kellogg Insight] [Rocking Our Priors podcast]
Non-technical summary: [VoxEU column] [Rivista Eco: link, PDF]
Mafias and Firms
with Marco De Simoni, Luigi Guiso, Rocco Macchiavello, Domenico Marchetti, and Mounu Prem
[PDF, updated January 2025] [Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) WP No. 24, Nov. 2024] [CEPR DP No. 18982, March 2024] [IZA DP No. 16893, March 2024] [CESifo WP No. 11043, March 2024]
Coverage: [VoxTalks Economics podcast] [Radiocor] [Gazzetta di Mantova] [Notizie.com]
Non-technical summary: [Rivista Eco: link, PDF]
A Second Soul: Age at Immigration, Language, and Cultural Assimilation
with Kobi Mizrahi and Shmuel San
UniCredit Foundation Modigliani Research Grant
[PDF, updated June 2025]
The Labor Demand Implications of Brand Capital: Insights from Trademark Transactions in Italy
with Carolina Bussotti, Matteo Paradisi, and Liangjie Wu
VisitINPS Scholars Program
[PDF, June 2025]
Unbundling the Effects of College on First-Job Search: Returns to Majors, Minors, and Extracurriculars
with Carolina Bussotti, John M. Nunley and R. Alan Seals
[PDF, updated May 2025] [IZA DP No. 17552, Dec. 2024]
Selected Work in Progress
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Skilled Mass Migration on Innovation and Growth
with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Maor Milgrom, and Shmuel San
Human Capital Investments over the Business Cycle
with Dita Eckardt
Discussions
Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms, by Minni, Nguyen, and Sarsons [Mar. 2025, slides]
Mafia, Politics, and Machine Predictions, by Campedelli, Daniele, and Le Moglie [Dec. 2024, slides]
The Value of Skills: New Evidence From Apprenticeship Plans, by Langer and Wiederhold [Feb. 2022, slides]
It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At: Hiring Origins, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages, by Di Addario, Kline, Saggio, and Sølvsten [Dec. 2021, slides]
Trust Unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War, by Tur-Prats and Valencia-Caicedo [Mar. 2018, slides]