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:
Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply. (with Dominique Goux and
Eric Maurin). Forthcoming, American Economic Review.
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:
Gender gaps across countries and skills: Supply, Demand
and the Industry Structure.
(with Claudia Olivetti). Revisions requested, Review of Economic Dynamics.
How
local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model. (with Alan Manning).
Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy. (with
Rachel Ngai)
Incentives, disruption and jobs: Evidence from Public
Employment Service Reforms. (with Nitika Bagaria and John Van Reenen)