IZA World of Labor - Francesco Pastore

Francesco Pastore

University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," Italy, and IZA, Germany

I am very happy to contribute to this ambitious project, addressing key issues and helping to popularize the results of scientific research for a wider audience: not only of academics, but also of practitioners and policymakers. I have always believed in the role that economic and social research has in improving the life of people. I hope that my contribution will be useful also to young people and their families to understand the best way to deal with the challenges that they have to face

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," Italy

Research interest

Labor and education, development, transition economics

Website

https://www.iza.org/person/692/francesco-pastore

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Consultant for several international organizations, including the International Labour Organization, Lombardy Regional government, Unesco, and the World Bank

Past positions

Assistant Professor of Economics, Seconda Università di Napoli, 2001–2015; Research Fellow, University of Naples “Federico II,” 2000–2001

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of Sussex, 2001

Selected publications

The Youth Experience Gap: Explaining National Differences in the School-to-Work Transition. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing AG, 2015.
"Why so slow? The school-to-work transition in Italy." Studies in Higher Education (Forthcoming).
"Overeducation at a glance: Determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea Data." Social Indicators Research 137:3 (2018): 999–1032 (with F. E. Caroleo).
“Getting it right: Youth employment policy within the EU.” Cesifo Forum 18:2 (2017): 19–25.
“The European youth guarantee: Labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy.” IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4:11 (2015).

Why is youth unemployment so high and different across countries?

Young people experience worse labor market outcomes than adults worldwide but the difference varies greatly internationally

Francesco Pastore, January 2018

In Germany, young people are no worse off than adults in the labor market, while in southern and eastern European countries, they fare three to four times worse. In Anglo-Saxon countries, both youth and adults fare better than elsewhere, but their unemployment rates fluctuate more over the business cycle. The arrangements developed in each country to help young people gain work experience explain the striking differences in their outcomes. A better understanding of what drives these differences in labor market performance of young workers is essential for policies to be effective.
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