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Matching Efficiency and Labour Market Reform in Italy: A Macroeconometric Assessment (2007). Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 21 (1) 57–84.

A matching theory approach is used to assess the impact on the Italian labour market of the 1997 Treu Act (legge Treu), which considerably eased the regulation of temporary work and favoured its growth in Italy. We re‐parameterize the matching …

Matching efficiency and Labour market reforms across Italian Regions (2006). In F. Caroleo, and S. Destefanis (eds.) Regions, Europe and the Labour Market: recent problems and development, Physica Verlag.

Domanda e Offerta – Flussi di lavoro per genere e regione (2005). In A.Amendola, E Rustichelli (eds.) Rapporto sul mercato del lavoro nel Mezzogiorno, Parte I, “Monografie sul Mercato del lavoro e le politiche per l’impiego”, n. 12/2005 ISFOL – RP(MDL)-12/05.

Il mercato del lavoro femminile nel Mezzogiorno (2005). In F.E. Caroleo, E Rustichelli (eds.) Rapporto sul mercato del lavoro nel Mezzogiorno, Parte II, “Monografie sul Mercato del lavoro e le politiche per l’impiego”, n. 12/2005 ISFOL – RP(MDL)-12/05.

Curva di Beveridge, mismatch e domanda di lavoro qualificato (2004). In A. Mocavini, P.A. Paliotta (eds.) La domanda di lavoro qualificato in Italia, Franco Angeli, Milano.

Un nuovo approccio alla misura del mismatch: la funzione di produzione (2004). In A. Mocavini, P.A. Paliotta (eds.) La domanda di lavoro qualificato in Italia, Franco Angeli, Milano.

Can the Matching Model Account for Spanish Unemployment? (2003). Investigaciones Economicas, 27(2), 277-308.

This paper aims at explaining the dynamics of the Spanish labour market, focussing in particular on the high persistence of unemployment and the dynamics around the Beveridge curve. We develop a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model in which …

Unemployment Persistence and Mismatch (2002). Dissertation thesis, published by UCL Presses Universitaires, September.

Entrepreneurship, Start-up Costs and Employment (2001). European Economic Review, 45 (4-5), 692-705.

We study the effects of business start-up costs on employment, in a model with managers, workers and matching. We show that higher start-up costs discourage entrepreneurs and increase the fraction of the population who become workers. Job creation …