Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. She is Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme and Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. She previously held positions at Queen Mary University of London, the London School of Economics, the Paris School of Economics and the University of Carlos III (Madrid). She is currently managing co-editor of the Economic Journal. Her primary research interests are in labour economics. She has worked extensively on the performance of labour markets with job search frictions, with applications to unemployment dynamics, welfare policy and interdependencies across local labour markets. Her work also researches the causes of gender inequalities in labour market outcomes, in a historical perspective and across countries, with emphasis on the role of employment selection mechanisms, structural transformation, and interactions within the household.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8135
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 32-40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8134
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9, 1-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6178
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107, 2877-2907
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5935
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17 (4), 842-859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5639
published in American Economic Review, 2014,104, 252-276.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3856
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1234-1253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3315
published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (2), 256-262
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2419
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526), F28-F51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2076
published as 'Job and wage mobility with minimum wages and imperfect compliance' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 580-612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1941
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 621 - 654
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