Michele Battisti
ifo/CESifo Visiting Researcher
Michele Battisti, University of Glasgow, CESifo Guest from 3 to 11 December 2019.
Labor Market Integration of Refugees
Michele Battisti has been working on the role of immigrant social networks on the employment and human capital investment decisions of newcomers to Germany. His work shows that while co-nationals can help find employment soon after arrival, investment in host-country skills is potentially negatively affected. Focusing on asylum seekers, another project employs a randomized field experiment to evaluate the role of matching frictions for the labor market integration of forced migrants in Germany. Within a separate but related research agenda on the effects of innovation for individual workers, Mr. Battisti is currently working on a paper on the heterogeneous effects of technological and organizational change at the firm level for workers of different occupations, age and education levels. In future, he will continue working on migration and innovation, with a focus on how their affects differ for different types of individuals.
Michele Battisti is an applied economist with research interests in the fields of labor economics, the economics of migration, applied econometrics, public economics and the economics of education. His current work includes projects on the labor market integration of refugees, on the effects of ethnic networks for employment and human capital, and on the effects of technological and organizational change on the careers of workers.
While at CESifo in December, Mr. Battisti will work on a project that investigates the effects of broadband availability on local politics in Italy. He will also continue working on project on gender economics and migration.
Michele Battisti is a Lecturer in Applied Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Previously he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Trento and as a researcher at the ifo Institute. He holds a PhD in Economics from Simon Fraser University, an MSc in Economics from the University of York (UK) and a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Trento. Michele Battistis is a CESifo Research Network Affiliate, an IZA Network Fellow and a CReAM External Fellow.