I am especially interested in how labour market institutions and policies affect long-term decisions of workers and firms, and how these can shape the economy’s growth trajectory.

My research agenda studies institutional reforms and public policies arising from industrial and social conflict, and their effects on a wide set of outcomes which include the functioning and efficiency of labour markets, the quantity and quality of education, the development of regional economies and internal migration, with special reference to the structural transformations of the Italian economy in the second half of the 20th century.

My methodology applies quantitative methods to historical quasi-natural experiment in order to identify causal channels and mechanisms, and combines primary statistical sources after ad-hoc digitisation and harmonization.