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Paolo Verme

World Bank, USA

Happy to be part of this new family of researchers committed to turn research into policy making, a much needed initiative.

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Author

Current position

Lead Economist and Program Manager, Fragility Conflict and Violence CCSA at The World Bank, USA

Research interest

Welfare economics, welfare reform, social protection, poverty, inequality

Website

http://www.paoloverme.net

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Senior Economist at The World Bank (2015–2016), Senior Poverty Specialist at The World Bank (2010–2014), Labor Market Project Manager at the European Union (2000–2002)

Past positions

Professor of Political Economy at the University of Torino (2003–2010), Visiting Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University, Milan (2004–2009)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2000

Selected publications

  • "Top incomes and the measurement of inequality in Egypt." World Bank Economic Review (2017) (with V. Hlasny).

  • "The economics of forced displacement: An introduction." Region and Development 44 (2016): 141–163.

  • "Female labor participation in the Arab world: Evidence from panel data in Morocco." Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 30 (2016): 235–367 (with A. Gadiry-Barry and J. Guennoui).

  • "Estimating quarterly poverty rates using labor force surveys: A primer." World Bank Economic Review 30 (2016): 475–500 (with M. Douidich, A. Ezzrari, and R. van der Weide).

  • "Labor mobility, economic shocks and jobless growth evidence from panel data in Morocco." Middle East Development Journal 8 (2016): 1–31 (with A. Gadiry-Barry, J. Guennoun, and M. Taamouti).

article(s)

  • Relative deprivation in the labor market

    The choice of reference group crucially determines subjective deprivation and thus affects labor market behavior

    Paolo Verme, June 2017
    Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to the status of their peers—the reference group. One way to test this hypothesis in the labor market is to measure individual differences in labor status while controlling for characteristics that define population groups. This measure is called “relative labor deprivation” and can help policymakers to better understand how labor claims are generated.
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