Barbara Petrongolo
Professor
of Economics, Queen Mary University London
Research
Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Other affiliations:
CEPR (Research Fellow), IZA (Research Fellow)
Fields of interests:
Applied micro: labor,
job search, gender inequalities, public policy.
Journal Publications:
Job and wage mobility with minimum wages and imperfect
compliance.
(with Zvi Eckstein and Suqin
Ge). Journal
of Applied Econometrics 26: 580-612, 2011.
What are the long-term effects of UI? Evidence from the
UK JSA Reform.
Journal of Public Economics 93: 1234-1253, 2009.
Unequal
pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps. (with Claudia Olivetti). Journal of Labor Economics 26: 621-654, 2008.
The
ins and outs of European unemployment (with Christopher Pissarides).
American Economic Review, P&P,
98: 256-262, 2008. (Data)
A test between stock-flow matching and the random
matching function approach
(with Melvyn Coles). International
Economic Review 49: 1113-1141, 2008.
The part-time penalty for women in Britain (with Alan Manning). Economic Journal 118: F28-F51, 2008.
How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary
to permanent work in Spain
(with Maia Guell), Labour Economics 14: 153-183, 2007. Featured in El Pais [Article]
Regional
mismatch and unemployment: Theory and evidence from Italy, 1977-1998 (with Marco Manacorda), Journal of Population Economics
19: 137-162, 2006.
Scale effects in markets with search (with Christopher Pissarides).
Economic Journal 116: 21-44,
2005.
Stock-flow matching and the performance of the labor market (with Paul Gregg), European Economic Review 49:
Gender segregation in employment
contracts, Journal of the European
Economic Association 2: 331-345, 2004
Re-employment probabilities and returns to matching. Journal of
Labor Economics 19: 716-741, 2001.
Looking into the black box: A survey of the matching
function. (with Christopher Pissarides). Journal
of Economic Literature 39: 390-431, 2001.
Firing costs and stigma: A
theoretical analysis and empirical evidence on micro data. (with Patrizia
Canziani). European Economic Review
45: 1877-1906, 2001.
Staying-on at school at 16: The
impact of labor market conditions in Spain. (with
Maria San Segundo). Economics of Education
Review 21: 353-365, 2002.
Skill mismatch and unemployment in
OECD countries (with Marco Manacorda). Economica 66: 181-207, 1999.
Working papers and papers in progress:
How local are labor markets?
Evidence from a spatial job search model. (with Alan Manning).
Gender gaps across countries and skills: Supply, Demand
and the Industry Structure.
(with Claudia Olivetti). Revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics.
Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply. (with Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin).
Structural transformation and female employment. (with
Rachel Ngai)
Job placement incentives and youth job-finding rates.
(with John Vanreenen)