LUCA NUNZIATA


PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS

UNIVERSITY OF PADUA
IZA RESEARCH FELLOW
DPHIL, MPHIL, MA OXFORD

 

 

Publications

 

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Teaching

 




 

 


Contact Details

 

Department of Economics, University of Padua,

Via del Santo 33, 35121, Padua, Italy.

Phone: ++39 049 8274288.

Fax: ++39 049 8274211 or 8274221

Email: luca.nunziata[at]unipd.it

 

 

Publications

 

Latest Working Papers

 

Crime Perception and Immigration in Europe’, 2011.

 

‘The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: the Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship’, 2011 (with Lorenzo Rocco).

 

Refereed Publications

 

Models of Unionism and Unemployment, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 141 – 152, June 2011, (with Daniele Checchi).

 

Labour Market Structures and the Sacrifice Ratio’, Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp. 816-826, September 2010, (with Christopher Bowdler).

 

‘Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries, Economic Policy, Volume 24, Issue 58, pp. 349-402, April 2009, (with Andrea Bassanini and Danielle Venn). Web appendix here.

 

Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 109, Issue 3, pp. 619-642,  September 2007, (with Christopher Bowdler).

 

Labor Market Institutions and Wage Differentials, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Volume 60, Number 3, pp. 340-356, April 2007, (with Winfried Koeniger and Marco Leonardi).

 

‘Short Term Contracts Regulations and Dynamic Labour Demand: Theory and Evidence, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 54, Number 1, pp. 72-104, February 2007, (with Stefano Staffolani).

 

Trade Union Density and Inflation Performance: Evidence from OECD Panel Data’, Economica, Volume 74, Issue 293, p. 135-159, 2007, (with Christopher Bowdler).

 

Trade Openness and Inflation Episodes in the OECD’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 38, Number 2, pp. 553-563, March 2006, (with Christopher Bowdler).

 

Institutions and Wage Determination: a Multi-Country Approach, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 67, Issue 4, pp. 435-466, August 2005.

 

Unemployment in the OECD since the 1960s. What do we know?’, The Economic Journal, Volume 115, pp.1-27, January 2005, (with Steve Nickell and Wolfang Ochel).

 

Labour Market Institutions and the Cyclical Dynamics of Employment, Labour Economics, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 31-53, February 2003.

 

‘The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD’, in Aghion, Frydman, Stiglitz and Woodford (eds.) Knowledge, Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: in Honor of Edmund S. Phelps, Princeton University Press, pp. 394-431, 2003 (with Steve Nickell, Wolfang Ochel, and Glenda Quintini).

 

Other Papers and Book Contributions

 

Employment in Europe and the Flexicurity Option’, CESifo DICE Report, 4, 2008.

 

‘Some Notes on OECD Labour Markets’ background paper for Ghose A., Majid N., Ernst C., The Global Employment Challenge, ILO, 2008.

 

Beveridge Curve’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Fixed Effects Regression’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Flexibility’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Labor Union’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

‘Monte Carlo Experiments’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Residuals’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Unemployment Compensation’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Voluntary Unemployment’, entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William Darity (ed.), Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

 

Flessibilita’ del Mercato del Lavoro e Disuguaglianze Salariali nei paesi OCSE’, 2005 (with Winfried Koeniger and Marco Leonardi), in Per un’Analisi Critica del Mercato del Lavoro, a cura di Brucchi Luchino, il Mulino.

 

Why Jobless Rates Differ?’, CentrePiece, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Autumn 2001. Reprinted in CESifo Forum, Vol. 3, Number 1, Spring 2002 (with Steve Nickell, Wolfang Ochel, and Glenda Quintini).

 

Working Papers

‘Aggregate Self-Employment Patterns’, 2010.

 

Recent Trends in OECD Labour Markets: Flexibility and Economic Performance’, 2008, DTI Working Paper.

 

Forecasting (and explaining) US Business Cycles’, CEPR Working Paper 4584, 2004, presented at the FED, BOMOPA and European Meeting of the Econometric Society conferences (with John Muellbauer).

 

‘The Evolution of OECD Labour Markets: 1960-1995’, 2002.

 

Unemployment, Labour Market Institutions and Shocks’, Nuffield College Working Papers in Economics, 2002-W16.

 

‘Credit, the Stock Market and Oil: Forecasting U.S. GDP’, CEPR Discussion Paper DP2906 (with John Muellbauer), research reported in “America's Long and Tricky Road”, Financial Times, 1 May 2001.

 

Employment Patterns in OECD Countries’, CEP, LSE Discussion Paper 448, 2000 (with Steve Nickell).

 

Software and Programming

 

xtdw.ado: a Stata command for Durbin Watson statistic in fixed effects panel data models (help).

 

xtbac.ado: a Stata command for the Baltagi autocorrelation test in panel data (help).

 

xtfptest.ado: a Stata command for the Fisher version of the Philips Perron test for cointegration in panel data (help).

 

xtdftest.ado: a Stata command for the Fisher version of the Dickey Fuller test for cointegration in panel data (help);

 

hetgrot.ado: a Stata command for a Likelihood Ratio test for groupwise heteroskedasticity (help).