Julián Messina

RESEARCH

“If a Scientist finds something publishable, this will become the central piece of his/her theory”

Mann's Law

Published and forthcoming papers in refereed journals

Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment?; (with E. Wasmer and A. Lamo) Forthcoming Labour Economics. Press Coverage: Reuters, Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian)

Educational Mismatch and Wages After Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity using Matching Estimators; (with A. Lamo). Forthcoming Economics of Education Review.

Downward Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity: Survey Evidence from European Firms (with J. Babecký, Du Caju, D. Kosma, M. Lawless and T. Rõõm). Forthcoming Scandinavian Journal of Economics

The Incidence of Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity: an Individual-Based Sectoral Approach (with P. Du Caju, C. Duarte, N. Hansen and M. Izquierdo).
Journal of the European Economic Association 8(2-3): 487-496, 2010

The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU countries (old version), (with F. Cingano, M. Leonardi and G. Pica).
Revised version published in, Economic Policy 61: 117-163, 2010

Real Wages Over the Business Cycle: OECD Evidence from the Time and Frequency Domains; (with C. Strozzi and J. Turunen).
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 33(6): 1183-1200, 2009

Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe, (with G. Vallanti). The Economic Journal 117: F279-F301, 2007

How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project, (with W. Dickens, L. Goette, E. Groshen, S. Holden, M. Schweitzer, J. Turunen and M. Ward). Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(2): 195-214, 2007

The Role of Product Market Regulations in the Process of Structural Change, European Economic Review 50(7): 1863-1890, 2006

Institutions and Service Employment: a Panel Study for OECD Countries, LABOR: Review of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations 19(2): 343-372, 2005

Gross Job Flows and Institutions in Europe, (with R. Gomez-Salvador and G. Vallanti) Labour Economics 11: 469-485, 2004

Working papers

The Interaction of Labor Markets and Inflation: Analysis of Micro Data from the International Wage Flexibility Project, (with W. Dickens, L. Goette, E. Groshen, S. Holden, M.Schweitzer, J. Turunen, and M. Ward-Warmedinger). Mimeo

Margins of Labour Cost Adjustment: Survey Evidence from European Firms (with J. Babecký, Du Caju, D. Kosma, M. Lawless and T. Rõõm). ECB Working Paper Series 1106

Downward Wage Rigidity and Optimal Steady-State Inflation; (with G. Fagan). ECB Working Paper Series 1048.

Work in Progress

Employment Protection Legislation, Productivity and Investment: Evidence from Italy; joint with F. Cingano, M. Leonardi and G. Pica. Mimeo

Wage adjustments and technology shocks: evidence from matched employer-employee data; joint with Mikaael Carlsson and Oskar Nordström Skans. Mimeo

Mismatch and over-qualification in Europe

Rent Sharing in Europe: Evidence from Firm-Level Data; joint with A. Sanz de Galdeano

Firms as Insurance-Providers and Institutions; joint with A. Sanz de Galdeano

Collected volumes

Labour Market Adjustments in Europe. (with C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega) (editors). Edward Elgar Publishers, 2006. Link to the book

Contributions to collected volumes

The Macroeconomics of Education in Europe, (with P. Fredriksson, A. Lamo, G. Peri and E. Wasmer). Forthcoming. Oxford University Press

The Cyclical Behaviour of Real Wages in the Euro Area and OECD countries, (with C. Strozzi and J. Turunen). In: Labour Market Adjustments in Europe. J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (editors). Edward Elgar Publishers. 2006. Link to the book

On the determinants of job flows in Europe: Sectoral Factors and Institutions, (with R. Gomez-Salvador and G. Vallanti). In: Labour Market Adjustments in Europe. J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (editors). Edward Elgar Publishers. 2006. Link to the book

A comment on “Matching Workers to Jobs in the Fast Lane: the Operation of Fix Term Contracts“�by J. Varejão and P. Portugal in Labour Supply And Incentives To Work In Europe. Gómez-Salvador, R. Lamo, A. Petrongolo, B. Ward, M. Wasmer, E. (editors). Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005. Link to the book

Not in English

La lotta di classe tra “in” e “out”siders, RESET, 79, 2003

Cambio ocupacional y cualificativo. 1990-96 (with C. Iglesias and J. R. Cuadrado), Revista de Informacion Comercial Española, (775: 103-111), 2000

Empleo y Cualificaciones Laborales en la Comunidad de Madrid, 1990-1996 (with C. Iglesias and J. R. Cuadrado) Comunidad de Madrid. Colección Estudios y Análisis. Joint with C. Iglesias and J. R. Cuadrado, 1998. pp. 1-160. Link to the book