FRANCESCO DEVICIENTI

 

Contacts:

 

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Finanziarie "G. Prato", Facoltà di Economia, Università di Torino, Corso Unione Sovietica 218bis, 10134 Torino (Italy)

Phone numbers:

Office: +39 0116706288

Email:

devicienti@econ.unito.it

Web:

http://web.econ.unito.it/fdevic/

Nationality:

Italian

Family:

Married, two children

 

 

CURRENT POSITION:

-         Associate professor, Department of Economics and Public Finance “G. Prato”, University of Torino, 2011 – .

-         Affiliate, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2010- present.

 

PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

-         Consultant for the Italian Institute for the Development of Vocational Training for Workers (ISFOL), Roma, 2010 –.

-         Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Public Finance “G. Prato”, University of Torino, 2004-2010.

-         Visiting Scholar, Center for Labor Economics, University of California Berkeley, Sept. 2008 – Feb. 2009.

-         Research Fellow, LABORatorio R. Revelli – Centre for Employment studies, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, 2004-2009.

-         Consultant for the World Bank, Poverty Reduction Group, PREM, Washington, 2004-2006.

-         Consultant for the National Commission on Poverty and Social Exclusion, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Roma, 2004-2006.

-         Senior Researcher, LABORatorio R. Revelli – Centre for Employment Studies, 2001-2003.

-         Consultant for the inter-agency (ILO, World Bank, UNICEF). The Innocenti Research Centre, UNICEF, Florence. 2001.

-         Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex (UK), 1999-2001.

-         Research Analyst, NERA Economic Consulting, London, 1999.

-         Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Essex, 1998.

-         Servizio Civile (one-year community service alternative to the then compulsory military service), Pubblica Assistenza Città di Bologna, 1992.

 

EDUCATION:

-         Ph.D. in Economics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2003.

-         Dottore di Ricerca in Economia Politica, University of Bologna, Italy, 1999.

-         Master's Degree in Economics, CORIPE-Piemonte, University of Torino, Italy, 1995.

-         Laurea (summa cum laude), Political Sciences and Economics, University of Bologna, 1994.

 

TEACHING:

-         “Advanced labor economics”, Laurea Magistrale in Economics (two-year master course), Faculty of Economics, University of Torino, 2011 – present.

-         “Advanced microeconomics”, Laurea Magistrale in Economics (two-year master course), Faculty of Economics, University of Torino, 2010 – present.

-         “Macroeconomics”, second year undergraduate course, Faculty of Economics, University of Torino, academic years: 2005- present.

-         “Principles of Economics”, second year undergraduate course, Faculty of Economics, University of Torino, 2004.

-         Module in “Applied Labor Economics”, Doctoral Program in Economics, second-year courses, University of Torino and CORIPE-Piemonte. Academic year 2002/3.

-         Module in “The analysis of duration data, with applications to poverty dynamics”, Doctoral Program (Reading Group in Microeconometrics), Department of Economics, Università Cattolica Milano, Oct 2003.

-         “Applied Econometrics using STATA”, third year undergraduate course, Faculty of Political Science, University of Torino, academic years 2000/1, 2001/2, 2002/3.

-         “Mathematics for economists”, first year undergraduate course, Department of Economics, Essex University, academic years 1996/97 and 1997/98. 

-         “Microeconomics”, second year undergraduate course, Department of Economics, Essex University, academic year 1997/98.

 

HONOURS AND AWARDS:

-         “Incentives for International Research” 2009 award, School of Economics, University of Torino.

-         Mobility Grant from the World Wide Style Program (researcher mobility program), University of Torino, 2008.

-         ECASS fellowship, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Colchester, UK, 2007.

-         IRISS fellowship supported by the European Commission at CEPS-INSTEAD, Differdange, Luxembourg, 2003.

-         Research Fellowship, Bologna University, Italy, 1995 - 1998.

-         Scholarship “L. Jona”, Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino, Italy, 1995.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Labor economics, income distribution and poverty, applied economics, microeconometrics.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Refereed journal articles:

1.      “The Persistence Of Income Poverty And Life-style Deprivation: Evidence From Italy”, (with V. Gualtieri and M.C. Rossi), Bulletin of Economic Research, forthcoming.

2.      “Are Temporary Jobs a Port Of Entry Into Permanent Employment? Evidence From Matched Employer-employee Data” (with F. Berton and L. Pacelli), International Journal of Manpower, Issue 8, 2011.

3.      “Income Poverty and Social Exclusion: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Dynamically Interrelated Processes?”, (with A. Poggi), Applied Economics, vol. 43, issue 25, 2011.

4.      “Estimating Poverty Persistence in Britain”, in Empirical Economics, Volume 40, Issue 3, pp. 657-687, 2011.

5.      “Are Informality and Poverty Dynamically Interrelated? Evidence From Argentina”, (with F. Groisman and A. Poggi), in Research on Economic Inequality, no. 18, 2010.

6.      “Shapley-Value Decompositions of Changes in Wage Distributions: A Note”, Journal of Economic Inequality, no. 8: 35-45, 2010.

7.      “The Resurrection of the Italian Wage Curve”, (with A. Maida e L. Pacelli), Economics Letters, 98, 335-341, 2008.

8.      “Downward Wage Rigidity In Italy: Micro-Based Measures And Implications”, (with A. Maida e P. Sestito), The Economic Journal, no. 117, 2007.

9.      “L’Aumento della Disuguaglianza dei Salari in Italia: Premi Salariali per le “Nuove Skill?””, (with A. Borgarello), Politica Economica, n.2, 2006.

10.  “La Determinazione  dei Salari in Italia: Rigidità Reali e Nominali Prima e dopo gli Accordi di Politica dei Redditi”, (with A. Maida e P. Sestito),  Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, n. 2, 2005.

11.  “Willingness to Pay for Water and Energy: An Introductory Guide to Contingent Valuation and Coping Cost Techniques”, (with I. Klytchnikova and S. Paternostro), Energy Working Notes, No. 3, December 2004, World Bank.

12.  “Poverty persistence in Britain: a multivariate analysis using the BHPS, 1991-1997”, Journal of Economics, 2002, Suppl. 9.

13.  “Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Italy: Evidence and Consequences”, Lavoro e Relazioni Industriali, 2002, n. 2.

 

Book chapters:

14.  “La Domanda di Contratti a Termine delle Imprese”, (with P. Naticchioni and A. Ricci), ch. 3 in “Istruzione, Formazione e Mercato del Lavoro: I Rendimenti del Capitale Umano in Italia”, 153 I Libri del Fondo Sociale Europeo, ISFOL, ROMA (ISSN: 1590-0002), 2011.

15.  “Contratti a Termine, Produttività e Costo del lavoro”, (with P. Naticchioni and A. Ricci), ch. 2 in “Istruzione, Formazione e Mercato del Lavoro: I Rendimenti del Capitale Umano in Italia”, 153 I Libri del Fondo Sociale Europeo, ISFOL, ROMA (ISSN: 1590-0002), 2011.

16.  “Povertà e Privazione Economica e Sociale: Nuove Analisi Dinamiche in Italia”, (with Ambra Poggi). In A. Brandolini, C. Saraceno and  A. Schizzerotto, Dimensioni della Disuguaglianza. Povertà, Salute, Abitazione, Il Mulino, 2009.

17.  “Persistenza e Transitorietà della Povertà in Italia: Soggettività, Multidimensionalità e Reddito a Confronto”, (with V. Gualtieri), in G. Rovati (eds) “Povertà e Lavoro. Giovani Generazioni a Rischio”, Carocci Editore, 2007.

18.  “Differenziali salariali regionali e performance economica”, a cura di Silvana Porcari e Francesco Devicienti, Monografie sul Mercato del Lavoro e le Politiche per l’Impiego, n. 5/2007, ISFOL – RP(MDL)-5/07.

19.  “Introduzione”, (with B. Contini), in "Differenziali salariali regionali e performance economica”, a cura di Silvana Porcari e Francesco Devicienti, Monografie sul Mercato del Lavoro e le Politiche per l’Impiego, n. 5/2007, ISFOL – RP(MDL)-5/07.

20.  “Riferimenti Teorici e Rassegna di Studi Analitici”, (with B. Contini and A. Maida), in "Differenziali salariali regionali e performance economica”, a cura di Silvana Porcari e Francesco Devicienti, Monografie sul Mercato del Lavoro e le Politiche per l’Impiego, n. 5/2007, ISFOL – RP(MDL)-5/07.

21.  “La rigidità dei Salari in Italia ed in Europa: Nuove Analisi Micro-econometriche”, (with A. Maida, L. Pacelli and A. Poggi), in "Differenziali salariali regionali e performance economica”, a cura di Silvana Porcari e Francesco Devicienti, Monografie sul Mercato del Lavoro e le Politiche per l’Impiego, n. 5/2007, ISFOL – RP(MDL)-5/07.

22.  “Dinamiche e Persistenza della povertà in Italia: Un’analisi con microdati panel di fonte ECHP”, (with V. Gualtieri), in G. Rovati (eds) “Le dimensioni della povertà”, Carocci Editore, 2006.

23.  “Rigidità Salariali e Ruolo delle Istituzioni: un’Analisi Microeconometrica”, (with  A. Maida). In Contini B. e Trivellato U. “Eppur si muove. Dinamiche e Persistenze nel Mercato del Lavoro Italiano”, 2005, il Mulino.

24.  “Trends in the Italian Earnings Distribution, 1985-1996”, (with A. Borgarello). In “Labor Mobility and Wage Dynamics in Italy”, edited by B. Contini, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2002.

25.  “Tendenze nella Distribuzione dei Salari”, (with A. Borgarello), in “Osservatorio sulla Mobilità del Lavoro in Italia”, a cura di B. Contini, Il Mulino, 2002.

26.  “Earnings Mobility in Italy, 1985-1996”, (with A. Borgarello and C. Villosio). In “Labor Mobility and Wage Dynamics in Italy”, edited by B. Contini, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2002.

27.  “Mobilità Retributiva”, (with A. Borgarello and C. Villosio), in “Osservatorio sulla Mobilità del Lavoro in Italia”, a cura di B. Contini, Il Mulino, 2002.

 

Reports and other publications:

28.  “Quality of Life in Europe. Empirical Evidence”, (A. Poggi, G. Bizzotto, F. Devicienti, P. Vesan, C. Villosio), WALQING working paper 2011, 4. The WALQING Project (Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs. SSH-CT-2009-244597) is funded by the European Commission‘s 7th Framework Programme.

29.  “Employment Security and Employability: A Contribution to the Flexicurity Debate”, (L. Pacelli, F. Devicienti, A. Maida, M. Morini, A. Poggi, P. Veran), European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2008, Dublin  (ISBN 978-92-897-0828-9).

30.   “Il Sud per L’Italia”, (with Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi e Anita Guelfi), 2008.

31.  “Differenziali Salariali Territoriali, Rigidità dei Salari e Performance Economica”; (with B. Contini, M. Filippi, A. Giordanengo, L. Pacelli, A. Poggi, A. Maida); preparato per ISFOL, 2006 (project coordinator).

32.  “Poverty and Social Impact Analysis Guidance on Sector-Specific Policy Reforms”, PREM, World Bank, Washington D.C, 2005.

33.  “The Interaction of Labor Markets and Inflation: Analysis of Micro Data from the International Wage Flexibility Project”, IWFP, 2005.

34.  “Rapporto sulle Politiche contro la Povertà e l’Inclusione Sociale”, Commissione d’Indagine sull’Esclusione Sociale, Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali, 2004.

35.  “Essays on Earnings and Poverty”, Ph.D. Thesis, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, 2003.

36.  “Every Child Counts. New Global Estimates on Child Labor”, Report of the International Program on the Elimination on Child Labor, International Labor Office, Geneva, April 2002.

37.  “The Dynamics of Poverty in Britain”, S. Jenkins, J Rigg and F. Devicienti (2001), Department of Work and Pension, Research Report Number 157, Leeds. (ISBN 1 84123 417 6).

38.  “Income Taxation, Redistribution and Endogenous Labor Supply”, Doctoral thesis, University of Bologna, 1999.

39.  “Analysis of Passenger Rail Demand”, with J. Cubbin, S. Price, et al. Report prepared for OPRAF by NERA Economic Consulting, London, July 1999.

40.  “Disuguaglianza Economica”, in Dizionario di Economia, Istituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara, 1998.

 

Working papers:

            Completed:

41.  “Rent sharing, hold-up and wages: evidence from matched employer-employee data”, (with D. Card and A. Maida). NBER Working paper series no. 16192. Submitted. 

42.  “Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test of Identify Sorting”, with Cristian Bartolucci, October 2011.

43.  “Human Capital accumulation in Temporary Jobs: Specific or General?”, with F. Berton and L. Pacelli, November 2011.

 

In progress:

44.   “Temporary contracts and workers’ welfare in Italy: Evidence from a random effect multi-state multi-spell dynamic model”, (with F. Berton and L. Pacelli).

45.  “The Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy, 1990-2002”, (with D. Card and A. Maida).

46.  “Wage Rigidity, Contract Data And Top-Up Wage Components: Institution Versus Market Forces  In Italy”, (with A. Maida and P. Sestito).

 

 

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS:

2011: Economics department, Università Bocconi, Milano, 14 January; Economics department, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, February 23; Economics department, Queen Mary University, London, 14 March; Faculty of Statistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 14 April; Workshop on "Economic analysis using linked employer and employee data: bringing together theory and empirics", 16-17 June, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; XXVI Conference of the Italian Association of Labor Economics (AIEL), 15-16 September, Università Cattolica di Milano. X “Brucchi Luchino” Labor Economics Workshop, 15-16 December, Bank of Italy, Rome.

2010: Facoltà di Statistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 22 April.

2009: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of Berkeley, CA; Workshop on “Firms and Wages: New Research Using Linked Employer-Employee Data”, Central European University, Budapest. Workshop: Empirical Developments in Labor Economics, Università di Cagliari. VIII “Brucchi Luchino” Labour Economics Workshop, 14-15 December 2009, Bank of Italy, Rome.

2008: Final PRIN Conference on “The Evolution of Inequalities in Italy”, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome.

2007: Workshop on the The Evolution Of Inequalities In The Italian Labour Market, Università Cattolica, Milano. Workshop on the Dynamic Analysis Using Panel Data: Applications to Poverty and Social Exclusion”, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri. II International Workshop on Poverty and Social Exclusion: Dynamics and Multidimensional Issues”, Universidad Autonoma de Barcellona, Barcellona. 

2006: XXI National Conference of Labour Economics (AIEL), Udine. Lunch Seminar series, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino.

2004: Conference on “Misure della Povertà e Politiche per l’inclusione Sociale”, Commissione d’Indagine sull’esclusione Sociale, Università Cattolica, Milano.

2003: Workshop on “Dinamiche e Persistenze nel Mercato del Lavoro Italiano ed Effetti di Politiche (basi di dati, misura e analisi)”, Università di Padova, Padova; Workshop on “Labour Market, Institutions and Income Distribution”, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara (Italy); Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, New York University, New York; 58th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Stockholm; XVIII National Conference of Labour Economics (AIEL), Messina; I° workshop ISFOL-DSE “Aspetti Della Mobilità Salariale: Modelli Teorici e Analisi Empiriche dal Panel Inps sui Lavoratori Subordinati”, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Roma.

2002: Conference on “Participation at work in Italy: Measurement and Modeling Issues”, Venice international University; Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, The University of Warwick; 79th International AEA Conference, Econometrics of Wages, Bruxelles; International Workshop on Income Distribution and Welfare, Università Bocconi, Milan; Panel 2002 – The 10th International Conference on Panel Data, Berlin; Statistical Methods for Social and Economic Surveys, 6th International Meeting; Workshop on “Wage Flexibility and the role of the Institutions”, IZA, Bonn, Germany.

2001: British Household Panel Survey research Conference. Colchester, UK; Income Distribution Analyses, Third Annual Meeting of LivinTaX, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Colmenarejo; XII Summer School of the European Economic Association and IZA, Buch, Germany; Department of Economics, Torino University.

 

REFEREEING ACTIVITY:

Computational Economics, Giornale degli Economisti Italiani, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Social Policy, Labour, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Politica Economica, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Rivista Ufficiale di Statistica, The European Journal of Comparative Economics, The International Journal of Manpower, The Review of Income and Wealth. 

 

ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCES

-         Organizer of the international workshop on “Dynamic Analysis Using Panel Data: Applications to Poverty and Social Exclusion”, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, 25, June, 2007 (with A. Poggi).

-         Organizer of the international workshop on “Bootstrap Statistical Inference for Non-linear Models and for Poverty, Inequality and Mobility Measures”. Moncalieri, 19, June, 2001.

 

PARTECIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

-         Coordinator of the LABORatorio Revelli’s research groups on Wages, Inequalities and Social Exclusion, 2006-2010.

-         Member of the national research program - PRIN “Dinamica dei differenziali retributive, disuguaglianze persistenti e transizioni dei lavoratori a basso salario” - project leader: Stefano Staffolani, University of Ancona, 2005-2006.

-         Member of the Italian team of experts (with P. Sestito and A. Maida) recruited for the International project on Wage Flexibility and Inflation [13 countries involved; project leaders: W. Dickens (Brookings Institution), E. Groshen (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)], 2002-2007. 

-         Member of the International TMR Network Living Standards, Inequality and Taxation. (http://livintax.montesquieu.u-bordeaux.fr/), 1999- 2000.

-         Selected for participation to the XII Summer School of the European Economic Association and IZA: “The Economics of Low Income and Low Paid Work”, Buch, Germany. September 2001.

-         Selected for participation to the Panel Comparability Workshop (PACO), Madrid, Spain, Sep 1999.

-         Summer School in Econometrics, Bertinoro, Italy, Sep 1996.

 

LANGUAGES

-         Italian: mother tongue; English: fluent; Spanish: semi-fluent.

 

COMPUTING

Advanced programming in Stata and OX.

Other software: Scientific Workplace, MS Office applications, E-Views, Gauss, Microfit, Maple, Matlab, SAS.