I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In my research I use microdata to answer macro questions, combining administrative and survey sources with structural models to study how labour market institutions shape reallocation, job search and skill formation.
My current projects all focus on the German labour market. Two of them study short-time work (Kurzarbeit): one asks how it reshapes firm dynamics and reallocation, the other how it affects worker reallocation through on-the-job search. A third project looks at the post-2008 shift in Germany away from vocational training and towards university education, and asks whether the wage returns to each pathway can fully explain the shift.
During the PhD I interned at the Deutsche Bundesbank, in the Directorate General Economics. I hold a BSc and MSc in Economics from the University of Groningen.