I am Associate Professor in Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Statistics (DEPS) at the University of Siena. I joined DEPS in 2024 after serving as an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Leeds (UK) for eight years (2017-2024). I am also IZA Research Fellow, Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School (UK) and affiliated scholar at FCEA, Universidad de la República (Uruguay).
My research lies at the intersection between labour and organisational economics. I am currently working on the labour market impact of working time regulations and advanced technologies. Other interests include worker voice institutions, cooperatives, employee ownership, and applications of behavioural economics to labour, organisation, and inequality studies.
Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor (Fascia I – 13/A1-13/A2-13/A4).
Working Papers
How do Top Earners Respond to Taxation? Evidence from a Tax Reform in Uruguay (with Marcelo Bérgolo, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso, Martín Leites and Horacio Rueda), SSRN WP (R&R Journal of the European Economic Association)
Property Rights, Sick Pay and Effort Supply (with Pablo Blanchard and Andres Dean), SSRN WP (R&R Journal of Development Economics)
The Impact of Overtime Limits on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Japan's Work Style Reform (with Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato), IZA DP No. 17583.
Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice (with Filippo Belloc, Stefano Dughera and Fabio Landini), SSRN WP (Under review)
Main Publications
Employee-Owned Firms and the Careers of Young Workers (with Jose Garcia-Louzao), Labour Economics, Accepted for Publication.
Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences (with Marcelo Bérgolo, Santiago Burone, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso and Martín Leites), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, vol. 20, 782-802.
Advanced Technologies and Worker Voice (with Filippo Belloc and Fabio Landini), Economica, 2022, 90: 1-38.
Digging into the Channels of Bunching: Evidence from the Uruguayan Income Tax (with Marcelo Bérgolo, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso and Martín Leites), The Economic Journal, 2021, vol. 131, 639, 2726–2762.
Employee Representation and Flexible Working Time (with Virginie Pérotin), Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101755.
The Hidden Benefits of Abstaining from Control (with Simon Halliday and Fabio Landini), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 147 (c), 1-12.
Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms, The Economic Journal, 2016, vol. 126 (594), 1372-1403.
Workplace Democracy and Job Flows (with Guillermo Alves and Andres Dean), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, vol. 44 (2), 258-271.
Are Worker-Managed Firms More Likely to Fail Than Conventional Enterprises? Evidence from Uruguay, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, vol. 67 (1), 202-238.
New Evidence on Wages and Employment in Worker Cooperatives Compared with Capitalist Firms (with Andres Dean), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009. Vol 34 (4), 517-533.
Other Publications
Coevolution of Job Automation Risk and Workplace Governance (with Filippo Belloc, Luca Cattani, William Ellis and Fabio Landini), Research Policy, 2022, Vol. 51 (3), 104441.
Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data (with Mauricio De Rosa, Andrea Vigorito and Joan Vila), World Development, 2022, Vol. 152, 105783.
Corporate Hierarchies and Workplace Voice (with Filippo Belloc and Fabio Landini), Journal of Institutional Economics, Accepted for publication.
Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems (with Takao Kato), Zimmermann K. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.
Like principal, like agent? Managerial Preferences in Employee-Owned Firms (with Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Mariana Chavez and Andrés Dean), Journal of Institutional Economics, 2021, 18(6), 877-899.
Revisiting the Objectives of Worker-Managed Firms: an Empirical Assessment (with Andres Dean), Economic Systems, 2012, vol 36 (1), 158–171.