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Vincenzo Caponi

CRENoS, Cagliari-Sassari, Italy; IZA, Germany; CNRS, Palaiseau, France.

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Associate professor University of Sassari

Research interest

Applied econometrics, labor economics, international migration, development economics, macroeconomics

Website

http://www.caponi.ca

Past positions

Professor, École National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse de l’Information (ENSAI), Rennes ; 2019 – 2023, Adjunct Professor of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, 2015 – 2016, Associate Professor of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, 2010 – 2015, Assistant Professor of Economics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, 2005 – 2010, Researcher, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT ), Rome, 1999 – 2001; Visiting Researcher, Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 2012 – 2013; Visiting Professor LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, 2012; Visiting Researcher IZA, Bonn, 2012.

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2007

Selected publications

  • "Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas" May (2024). Review of Economic Dynamics. (with Claire-Marie Boing-Reicher).

  • "Public employment policies and regional unemployment differences." Regional Science and Urban Economics 63 (2017): 1–12.

  • "Empirical characteristics of legal and illegal immigrants in the US." Journal of Population Economics 27:4 (2014): 923–960 (with M. Plesca).

  • "Intergenerational transmission of abilities and self-selection of Mexican immigrants." International Economic Review 52:2 (2011): 523–547.

  • "Heterogeneous human capital and migration, who migrates from Mexico to the US?" Annals of Economics and Statistics 97/98 (2010): 207-234.

article(s)

  • The effects of public sector employment on the economy Updated

    The size and wage level of the public sector affect overall employment volatility and the economy

    Vincenzo CaponiSimone Nobili, June 2024
    Public sector jobs are established by governments to directly provide goods and services. Governments may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research suggests that these effects are uncertain and critically depend on how public wages are determined. Rigid public sector wages lead to perverse effects on private employment, while flexible public wages lead to a stabilizing effect. Public employment also has important productivity and redistributive effects.
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