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)
Revised and resubmitted, Journal of the European Economic Association
[PDF, updated July 2025] [RFBerlin DP No. 45, July 2025] [CAGE WP No. 764, July 2025] [CESifo WP No. 11177, May 2024] [IZA DP No. 16389, Aug. 2023]
Coverage: [La Mañana]
Non-technical summary: [Central Bureau of Statistics Bulletin: PDF]
“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]
“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)
Revise and resubmit, Labour Economics
[PDF, updated May 2025] [IZA DP No. 17552, Dec. 2024]
“One Cohort at a Time: Young Workers’ Outcomes and the Declining Gender Pay Gap” (with Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi)
[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)
[PDF, updated July 2025]
“The Labor Demand Implications of Brand Capital: Insights from Trademark Transactions in Italy” (with Carolina Bussotti, Matteo Paradisi, and Liangjie Wu )
[PDF, June 2025]
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms” (with Fernando Saltiel)
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link] Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics
“Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size”
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link] Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42:2, 549-589.
Coverage: [WirtschaftsWoche] [IZA Newsroom]
“The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers’ Long-Term Skills”
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link] The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5): 1028-1045.
Non-technical summary: [Nada es Gratis blog entry]
“Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment”
[PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link] The Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82(1), 126-174.
[Data-driven teaching of Japanese American Internment to 8th graders]
Other Publications
“Who Gets their First Job at a Large Firm? The Distinct Roles of Education and Skills”
[PDF, Replication, Journal Link] AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111: 465-69.
“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)
[PDF, Journal Link] Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 2021, Issue 79: 152-217.
Non-technical summary: [Nada es Gratis blog entry]
Selected Work in Progress
“The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Skilled Mass Migration” (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Maor Milgrom, and Shmuel San)
“Human Capital Investments over the Business Cycle” (with Dita Eckardt)