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PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS 2006-2011

FORTHCOMING

On the Efficiency Costs of De-Tracking Secondary Schools in Europe (with Kenn Ariga, Roki Iwahashi and Lorenzo Rocco), Education Economics
The Causal Effect of Education on the Body Mass: Evidence from Europe (with Daniele Fabbri and Margherita Fort), Journal of Labor Economics

PUBLISHED

Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training (with Andrea Bassanini), The European Economic Review, 2011
Income Taxes and Profit Related Pay in the UK (with Daniela Sonedda and Simona Comi), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011
The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings, Journal of Population Economics, 2010
Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter? (with Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa), Economic Inquiry, 2010
The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: a Review of the Evidence, Journal of Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, also a working paper of the Education and Training Policy Division, OECD, 2009
Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe (with Margherita Fort and Guglielmo Weber), The Economic Journal, 2009
The Rise of Obesity in Europe: an Economic Perspective (with Anna Sanz de Galdeano and Pierre Carl Michaud), Economic Policy, July 2009
Market Failures and the Under-provision of Training (with Maria de Paola), in Journal of Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009

Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools (with Lorenzo Rocco), The Economic Journal, 2008
The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater. Evidence from Italy (with Lorenzo Cappellari), in Economics of Education Review, 2008
Is Training more Frequent when Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from the ECHP (with Andrea Bassanini), Labour Economics, 2008
Training and the Density of Economic Activity: evidence from Italian Provinces (with Maria De Paola), in Labour Economics, 2008
Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence (with Daniele Checchi), in Economic Policy, 52, 2007

Education and Training in Europe (with P. Garibaldi and E. Wasmer (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2007. Listed among the Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 2007 by the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.
The Optimal Timing of School Tracking (with Kenn Ariga and Massimo Giannini), in Peterson, P. and Woessmann, L., Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press, Cambridge USA, 2007
Does Obesity Hurt your Wages more in Dublin than in Madrid (with Beatrice D'Hombres), in Economics and Human Biology, 2007, 5,1, 1-19
Progressive Taxation and Wage Setting when Unions Strategically Interact, (with Daniela Sonedda), in Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59, 127-140
Do Spatial Agglomeration and Local Labor Market Competition affect Employer - provided Training? Evidence from the UK, (with Francesca Gambarotto), in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 37,2, 2007, 1-21
Are Education and Training always Complements? Evidence from Thailand, (with Kenn Ariga), in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59 (4), 2006