Search and Reallocation in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK (joint with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo, Annette Jäckle, Ludo Visschers and David Zentler-Munro)  Labour Economics, 81 , 2023.  Media Coverage: The Economist,  The New Statesman, The Great Resignation   (VoxEU,  The Conversation ,  Reasons to be Cheerful podcast),  The Silver Exodus (The Conversation).     Cited by the UK Parliament's Economic Affairs Committee  here.

Sectoral Labour Flow Accounting: A Matching Function Approach (joint with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo, Ludo Visschers and David Zentler-Munro). Slides here.

Abstractt: We develop a data-led structural framework for 1) measuring how workers direct their search effort towards different industries or occupations, and 2) providing measures of market tightness by industry and occupation. The novelty is to use realised worker flows to infer worker search effort and direction, when combined with vacancy data through the lens of a model of sector-specific matching functions. 

The Supply of Higher Education, Local Labour Markets Shocks and College Dropouts 

Abstract: If students make enrolment decisions optimally, what changes so they wish to withdraw? I look at two main drivers of schooling decisions: local labour market conditions and the supply of tuition free higher education (either through places in public universities or financial aid in private ones). I develop a model of higher education choice, in which individuals choose to participate in education and the labour market sequentially, as they suffer information and labour market shocks. The model will be estimated using microdata from Brazil, where the educational environment allows me not only to have a large sample of heterogeneous local labour markets but also to estimate and simulate the impact of exogenous changes in the local supply of tuition-free education . 

Assortative Matching and Income Inequality across Cohorts: Evidence from Brazil  (joint with Ashley Burdett)