Publications and Working Papers

Main Publications

• Moriconi, S., G. Peri and R. Turati (2025) Analyzing Political Preferences of Second- Generation Immigrants across the Rural-Urban Divide, Journal of Urban Economics, accepted for publication.

  • • A previous version of the paper circulated as Moriconi, S., G. Peri and R. Turati (2022) Are Immigrants more Left-leaning than Natives?  NBER Working Paper No. 30523. September 2022. [paper]

• Abay, T. and Moriconi, S. (2023), Managerial Firms, Taxation, and Welfare, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 179, issue 2, p. 340-380,  [WP version], [on-line app.]

• Moriconi S., Peri, G. and R. Turati (2022), "Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives: Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016", European Economic Review, Volume 141, 103986, [paper], [on-line app.:] 

• Iga Magda & Jan Gromadzki & Simone Moriconi, (2021). "Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe," Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 49, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 499-552. [paper]

• Moriconi, S., Peri, G., and Pozzoli, D. (2020). The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms' Offshoring Decisions. Canadian Journal of Economics 53(4), December 2020, Pages 1745-1792. [paper]

• Moriconi S., Peri g. and R. Turati (2019),"Immigration and Voting for Redistribution: Evidence from European Elections", Labour Economics 61 (2019) 101765 [paper]

• Moriconi S. and G. Peri (2019),"Country-Specific Preferences and Employment Rates in Europe", European Economic Review Volume 116, July 2019, Pages 1-27 [paper], [on-line app.]

• Moriconi, S., Picard, P.M. and S. Zanaj (2019) “Commodity taxation and regulatory competition”, International Tax and Public Finance, 26(4), 919-965 [paper],  [on-line app.]

• Magda I., Marsden D. and S. Moriconi (2016) "Lower coverage but stronger unions? Institutional changes and union wage premia in central Europe", Journal of Comparative Economics,  Vol.44(3), August, Pages 638-656.  [paper]

• Litina A., Moriconi S. and S. Zanaj (2016), "The cultural transmission of environmental preferences: a comparative approach", World Development Vol. 84 (August), 131–148. [paper] [on-line app.]

• Lehmann, E., Lucifora, C., Moriconi, S. and B. Van der Linden (2016) “Beyond the labor tax wedge: the unemployment reducing effect of tax progressivity", International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 23(3) June, 454-489. [paper]

• Lucifora C. and S.Moriconi (2015), “Political Instability and Labour Market Institutions”, European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 39 (September), 201-221. [paper]

• Magda I., Marsden, D. and S. Moriconi (2012) “Collective Agreements, Wages and Firms’ Cohorts: Evidence from Central Europe”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 65(3), 606-829. [paper]

• Moriconi S. and Y. Sato (2009), “International Commodity Taxation in the Presence of Unemployment”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 93, 939–949. [paper]

Working papers

• Cottini, E., Ghinetti, P. and S. Moriconi (2019) Higher Education Supply, Neighborhood Effects and Economic Welfare. CESifo Working Paper no. 7483. January 2019. [paper], [on-line app.]

• Moriconi, S. and N. Rodríguez-Planas (2021) Gender Norms and the Motherhood Employment Gap. CESifo Working Paper No. 9471. December 2021. [paper], [on-line app.]

• Braccioli, F., P. Ghinetti, S. Moriconi, C. Naguib, and M. Pellizzari (2023) Education Expansion, Skills and Labour Market Success. CESifo Working Paper No. 10842. December 2023. [paper]

• Brilli, Y. and S. Moriconi (2024) Culture of Origin, Parenting, and Household Labor Supply. CESifo Working Paper No. 11127. May 2024. [paper]

• Bilge, N. and S. Moriconi (2024) Syrian refugees and Gender Inequalities within households: Evidence from Turkey. IFLAME Working Paper No. 2024-iFlame-05 . September 2024. [paper]

Work in progress

• Migration policy backlash, identity and integration of second generation migrants in France  (with T. Baudin and Y. Govind). 

• Climbing the Ladder: The Intergenerational Mobility of Second-Generation Immigrants in France (with M.Pasternak, A. Tritah and N. Ukrayinchuk).

• Out of Africa: using genealogical data to assess the health impact of major historical events (with T.Baudin, G. Fink and R.Stelter). 

• Learning from our ancestors: Using crowdsourced historical data for empirical research (with Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, T.Baudin, M. Curtis, P.Gobbi, and R.Stelter).