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]

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)