Research
Research Agenda
I study how labour market institutions shape workers’ welfare, industrial relations, and the adoption of automation and new technologies. I focus mainly on low- and middle-income contexts, where structural transformation and growth trajectories reshape labour markets and the relations and conflicts within them.
Latest Paper
Latest paper
Global Automation Atlas
We develop a global, task-based and country-specific measure of automation exposure across 124 countries. The project separates labour-substituting from labour-augmenting automation, identifies the dominant technology channel and AI involvement, and provides country-, occupation-, industry-, and task-level exposure measures through the online atlas.
Working Papers
Union Delegates Incentives and Firm-level Outcomes
We study how electoral accountability for workplace union representatives affects firm-level employment outcomes after a 2008 reform in France tied union legitimacy to vote shares and approval thresholds. The project examines labor earnings, hours worked, bargaining content, and within-firm inequality.
Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of 50 Randomized Evaluations in 26 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Using Bayesian meta-analysis, this project aggregates evidence from 115 studies of 72 unconditional cash transfer programs and evaluates how impacts vary across policy-relevant mechanisms and contexts.
Talks / Press
Selected external coverage of the cash transfer meta-analysis includes Ideas for India and VoxDev.