Barbara Petrongolo

Barbara Petrongolo's main area of interest is applied labour economics. The focus of some of her recent contributions is the performance of labour markets with job search frictions, with applications to unemployment dynamics, welfare policy and interdependencies across local labour markets. She is also carrying out research on the causes and characteristics of gender earnings inequality across countries, with emphasis on the role of employment selection mechanisms and structural transformation.

Selected publications

• Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps" (joint with Claudia Olivetti). Journal of Labor Economics 26: 621-654, 2008

•  A test between stock-flow matching and the random matching function approach" (joint with Melvyn Coles). International Economic Review 49: 1113-1141, 2008.

• The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA reform". Journal of Public Economics 93: 1234-1253, 2009

•  The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment" (joint with Christopher Pissarides). American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 98: 256-262, 2008.

•  Job and wage mobility with minimum wages and imperfect compliance" (joint with Zvi Eckstein and Suqin Ge). Forthcoming in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011.

•  The part-time pay penalty for women in Britain" (joint with Alan Manning). Economic Journal 118: F28-F51, 2008.