CEP | People | Professor Tito Boeri

Biography

Professor of Economics and Dean for Research at Bocconi University, Milan, BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, founder of the economic policy watchdog website www.lavoce.info, scientific director of the Festival of Economics in Trento.

Publications

Journal article

Solo self-employment and alternative work arrangements: a cross-country perspective on the changing composition of jobs

The nature of self-employment is changing in most OECD countries. Solo self-employment is increasing relative to self-employment with dependent employees, often being associated with the development of gig economy work a... Read more...

Tito Boeri, Giulia Giupponi, Alan B. Krueger and Stephen Machin

01 October 2020

CEP discussion papers

A tale of comprehensive labor market reforms: evidence from the Italian jobs act

The Italian Jobs Act introduced a subsidy for new hirings as well as a new open ended labor contract based on graded security, with severance payments increasing with tenure, while phasing out the compulsory reinstatemen... Read more...

Tito Boeri and Pietro Garibaldi

04 April 2019

CEP discussion papers

The unbearable divergence of unemployment in Europe

Unemployment in Europe is not only “too high”, it is also too different across countries that belong to a monetary union. In this paper we i) document this increasing heterogeneity, ii) try to explain it and iii) draw fr... Read more...

Tito Boeri and Juan Francisco Jimeno

11 November 2015

CEP discussion papers

Financial Constraints in Search Equilibrium: Mortensen and Pissarides Meet Holmstrom and Tirole

The Great Recession has indicated that firms' leverage and access to finance are important for hiring and firing decisions. It is now empirically established that bank lending is correlated to employment losses when cred... Read more...

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Espen R. Moen

05 December 2014