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Monica Langella.

Monica Langella

Associate

Expertise: labour economics, labour markets, economics of education, applied micro, economics of crime, data science and data analysis methods

Telephone:
020 7852 3574
Email:
m.langella@lse.ac.uk
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CEP Community Wellbeing
Universita Federico II

Biography

Dr Monica Langella is a post-doctoral Research Economist for the Community Programme and Guest Teacher at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics. She received her PhD in Economics at the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Universities of Padova, Verona and Ca' Foscari (Venice) in 2016.

Current areas of research include:

  • The desired destination of wannabe immigrants (with Alan Manning)
  • Social and spatial mobility (with Pawel Bukowski)
  • Higher education, the impact of cost increases and changes in admission rules

Publications

Chapter
New technologies and evolving market structures

This Chapter investigates the relationship between technological changes, labour market frictions, and firms' labour market power. We provide guidance through the main trends that characterised labour markets during the ... Read more...

Monica Langella and Valeria Zurla

10 December 2024

Journal article
Commuting for crime

People care about crime, with the spatial distribution of both actual and perceived crime affecting the amenities from living in different areas and residential decisions. The literature finds that crime tends to happen ... Read more...

Tom Kirchmaier, Monica Langella and Alan Manning

01 April 2024

Journal article
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK

The UK has suffered from persistent spatial differences in unemployment rates for many decades. A low responsiveness of internal migration to unemployment is often argued to be an important cause of this problem. This pa... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

01 April 2022

Journal article
Marshall Lecture 2020 The Measure of Monopsony

There has been increasing interest in recent years in monopsony in the labour market. This paper discusses how we can measure monopsony power by combining insights from models based on both frictions and idiosyncrasies. ... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

01 December 2021

CEP discussion papers
Income and the desire to migrate

We analyse the role of household and country-level personal income in explaining both the desire to emigrate and the desired destination country. We use data from the Gallup World Poll and applications to the US Diversit... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

06 September 2021

CEP discussion papers
The measure of monopsony

There has been increasing interest in recent years in monopsony in labour market. This paper discusses how we can measure monopsony power combining insights from models based on both frictions and idiosyncrasies. It pres... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

30 June 2021

CEP discussion papers
Commuting for crime

People care about crime, with the spatial distribution of both actual and perceived crime affecting the amenities from living in different areas and residential decisions. The literature finds that crime tends to happen ... Read more...

Tom Kirchmaier, Monica Langella and Alan Manning

19 February 2021

Blog
Covid-19 and Higher Education: some of the effects on students and institutions and how to alleviate them

Monica Langella discusses some potential negative effects of the pandemic on higher education, particularly those pertaining to online assessment, university offers, and labour market outcomes. She offers evidence-based ... Read more...

Monica Langella

30 April 2020

Blog
Residential mobility in the UK: how distance and local economic conditions drive residential choices

Monica Langella and Alan Manning find that high unemployment in an area induces people to move away, and has an even stronger effect on the attractiveness of that area to potential movers. They also find that younger and... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

18 August 2019

Journal article
Diversity and Neighbourhood Satisfaction

This article investigates the impact of ethnic diversity on individuals' satisfaction with their neighbourhoods. It uses panel data and a variety of empirical methods to control for potential endogeneity of diversity and... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

31 July 2019

CEP discussion papers
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK

The UK has suffered from persistent spatial differences in unemployment rates for many decades. A low responsiveness of internal migration to unemployment is often argued to be an important cause of this problem. This pa... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

26 July 2019

CEP discussion papers
Diversity and neighbourhood satisfaction

This paper investigates the impact of ethnic diversity on individuals’ overall satisfaction with and other aspects of their neighbourhood. It uses panel data and a variety of empirical methods to control for potential en... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

14 December 2016

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Who voted Leave?

If EU immigration had remained at its 1991 level, the Leave vote share may have been considerably lower. That is one of the conclusions of CEP research by Monica Langella and Professor Alan Manning, which explores the ef... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

04 October 2016

Blog
Who voted Leave: the characteristics of individuals mattered, but so did those of local areas

Individual demographics had a huge effect in determining the outcome of the referendum, but the characteristics of local areas mattered as well, explain Monica Langella and Alan Manning. Immigration, the decline in manuf... Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

06 July 2016

Journal article
Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the 2008 recession: Evidence from Italian industrial districts

We investigate whether the impact of recessions on entrepreneurship is affected by the presence of industrial districts, a source of local agglomeration economies. Using Italian Labour Force quarterly data from 2006 to 2... Read more...

Giorgio Brunello and Monica Langella

01 May 2016

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