Working Papers
“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]
Non-technical summary: [VoxEU column]
“The Labor Demand Implications of Brand Capital: Evidence from Trademark Transactions” (with Carolina Bussotti, Matteo Paradisi, and Liangjie Wu)
[PDF, updated March 2026] [RFBerlin DP No. 079/26] [IZA DP No. 18461]
“One Cohort at a Time: Young Workers’ Outcomes and the Declining Gender Pay Gap” (with Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi)
[PDF, updated February 2026]
Older versions: [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 summaries: [VoxEU column] [Rivista Eco: link, PDF]
“Mafias and Firms” (with Marco De Simoni, Luigi Guiso, Rocco Macchiavello, Domenico Marchetti, and Mounu Prem)
[PDF, updated April 2026] [RFBerlin DP No. 130/26]
Older versions: [Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) WP No. 24, Nov. 2024] [CEPR DP No. 18982, 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]
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019” (with Shmuel San)
Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. [PDF, Replication, Journal Link, EEA Teaching Materials]
Coverage: [La Mañana]. Non-technical summaries: [VoxEU column] [Central Bureau of Statistics Bulletin: PDF]
“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)
Labour Economics, 2026, 99, 102846. [PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]
“Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms” (with Fernando Saltiel)
Journal of Labor Economics, 2026, 44:1, 149-188. [PDF, Online Appendix, Replication, Journal Link]
Veneto Workers Histories employer-employee dataset: [Additional resources]
“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]
Other Publications
“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]
Non-technical summary: [Nada es Gratis blog entry]
Selected Work in Progress
“Talent Shock: Can Skilled Immigration Jump-Start Innovation and Productivity?” (with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Maor Milgrom, and Shmuel San)
“Human Capital Investments over the Business Cycle” (with Dita Eckardt)
“Integration of Migrants: Cross-Country Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data“ (with César Barreto, Ana Damas de Matos, Alexander Hijzen, and the LinkEED 2.0 network)
Handbook Chapters
“Brechas de género en el mercado laboral” [Gender Gaps in the Labor Market] (with Barbara Biasi)
In Economía de Género (edited by Lídia Farré and Judit Vall Castelló). Fundación Ramón Areces, 2026. [Chapter PDF, Handbook Link]