FACULTY STAFF

Profile

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, European University Institute
MA in Economics, European University Institute
Laurea in Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy

Experience

1994-95 Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK
1983-87, 1990-91, 1992-94 Research and teaching fellow, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy
1985-88 Operating system and econometric software manager, Computing Service, University of Bergamo, Italy

Responsibilities

Director of Postgraduate Programmes

Research

Luisa Zanchi's research addresses both theoretical and empirical aspects of labour economics. These include theories of unemployment; analysis of inter-industry and gender wage differentials; investment in human capital and its effects on wages; labour market contracts and institutions; neo-corporatism; measurement of income distribution; microeconometric methods and their applications. Recently completed work includes studies of the inter-industry wage structure in various countries; trends in the training of male and female workers in the UK; inter-industry wage differentials in econometric models with dummy variables. Current work includes studies of the influence of data aggregation on the measurement of wage and income dispersion; economic growth and R&D expenditure; population ageing and its impact on investment in human capital, labour productivity and social expenditure; new technologies and their effect on labour productivity, wages and working conditions.

Teaching

Theories of Labour Market Institutions Module, Undergraduate Level 3
Economics Dissertations Supervision, Undergraduate Level 3
Mathematics & Statistics for Business and Economic Studies II Module, Undergraduate Level 2
Management Science Module, Undergraduate Level 1
Introductory Statistics for Economic Studies Module, Undergraduate Level 1

Publications

"Recent Contributions to the Search Theory of the Labour Market: Introduction", Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp.257-260, 2000

"Interindustry Wage Differentials in Dummy Variable Models", Economics Letters, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 297-301, 1998

"Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in the United Kingdom" (with F. Green), British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 653-644, 1997

"Neo-Corporativismo, Centralizzazione e Dispersione Inter-Settoriale dei Salari"(Neo-corporatism, Centralisation and Iter-Sectoral Wage Dispersion, in Italian) (with M.R. Garofalo), in: Biagioli, M. (ed.), Analisi economica delle relazione industriali, Napoli: ESI, 1997