Tommaso Porzio
@PorzioTommaso
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Macro-Development Economist. Associate Prof (untenured) @Columbia_Biz. @Yale PhD. FRF @nberpubs. Research Affiliate @cepr_org and @YaleRISE.
New York
Joined September 2018
Short 🧵 on new NBER WP “Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions”. The context: a giant literature has shown that frictions to labor mobility across space lead to spatial misallocation - simply put, some people are stuck in locations where there are no good jobs for them. 1/
How labor mobility costs decrease aggregate productivity: they shield low productivity firms from competition, increase local monopsony power, and misallocate labor, from Sebastian Heise and @PorzioTommaso
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RT @juli_caunedo: Send us your best papers👇!! Looking forward to putting together 3 exciting days of economics with @SorryToBeKurt and our…
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RT @cesifoti: I am a former H1B visa holder and US citizen. When I arrived in the US in 2004 with a trekker's backpack, an F1 visa, and $2…
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RT @felipev84: Now we have @PorzioTommaso from @Columbia_Biz delivering the keynote for @RIDGE_uy #TSG24 “Economic Development according to…
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RT @dmckenzie001: Job market series 2024 Wrap-up: We just finished our series of 26 posts by development economics PhD students on the job…
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RT @federi_ro: We have an opening for a postdoc position @warwickecon for a macro-development person! This is funded by my ERC/UKRI Starti…
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RT @paulnovosad: Last, this is why descriptive work is underrated. No preposterous IV, no incomprehensible structural model, just a new fa…
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RT @paulnovosad: Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.…
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RT @franciscopino: The program of the Towards Sustainable Growth workshop of the XXth @RIDGE_uy Forum is already available. @PorzioTommaso…
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RT @akhandelwal8: 🚨The Development-Markets Initiative at Yale EGC has a 1-year postdoc for Economics PhDs focused on development, trade & m…
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RT @Simon_Mongey: *Very* happy to see this 'in print'. Along with our paper "Labor Market Power", and "Merger Guidelines for the Labor Mark…
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RT @MartinBeraja: Like a winemaker, the economist will use math to produce a fine idea from the grapes of a rough insight. The math is th…
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My Xmas wish for DOGE: please simplify the process of submitting letter of recommendation for PhD programs!
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RT @BauNatalie: Okay, last but certainly not least, I'll tweet about another excellent student, @D__Henning. David is a development economi…
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RT @GCAProject: Our collaborator Amanda Dos Santos (@_amandads_, at Columbia Business School is on the job market…
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RT @MTabarrok: The overlap between academics who fretted over the danger of online echo chambers and academics who are leaving X for a plat…
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RT @paulnovosad: I understand the academic impetus to move to a new platform. But I think it is bad for the commons if all the academics d…
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RT @DrenikAndres: My new paper with @hafrouzi , Andres Blanco and Erik Hurst develops and estimates a model of why workers should hate infl…
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RT @Nichogachet: 🚨 Job Market Paper Here! Are we fully examining every aspect of contemporary agrarian reforms to understand their true imp…
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@pseudoerasmus @jenn_slg You are right, surprising is probably the wrong word, flexible would be much better!
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