Julián Messina
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1010420 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Julián Messina |
| NOMBRES | Julián |
| APELLIDO | Messina |
| FIRMA | MESSINA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Inter-American Development Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7829-1272 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic control measures substantially impacted the life of university students in the UK. While multiple studies investigated early stages of the pandemic, focusing on risk factors for depression and anxiety, fewer studies assessed later phases of the pandemic or examined positive protective factors for mental wellbeing. Our longitudinal study investigated changes and associations between COVID‐19 experiences, lifestyle behaviours,…
Higher risk of death from Covid-19 in low-income and non-White populations of São Paulo, Brazil
Introduction Little evidence exists on the differential health effects of COVID-19 on disadvantaged population groups. Here we characterise the differential risk of hospitalisation and death in São Paulo state, Brazil, and show how vulnerability to COVID-19 is shaped by socioeconomic inequalities. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study using hospitalised severe acute respiratory infections notified from March to August 2020 in the Sistema d…
Firm-Level Shocks and Labour Flows
We analyse how labour flows respond to permanent idiosyncratic shifts in firm-level production functions and demand curves using very detailed Swedish micro data. Shocks to firms’ physical productivity have only modest effects on firm-level employment decisions. In contrast, we document rapid and substantial employment adjustments through hires and separations in response to firm-level demand shocks. The choice of adjustment margin depends on the…
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil
Skill premium, labor supply, and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995–2012
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Although the conventional explanation of a falling education premium did play a role, an RIF regression-based decomposition analysis suggests that the decline in returns to potential experience was the ma…
Employment Protection Legislation, Capital Investment and Access to Credit
This article estimates the causal impact of dismissal costs on capital deepening and productivity, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust‐dismissal costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees, leaving firing costs unchanged for larger firms. We show that the rise in firing costs induced an increase in the capital‐labour ratio and a decline in total factor productivity in small firms relative to larger firms. Our results indicate that capital …
Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
Journal Article Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks Get access Mikael Carlsson, Mikael Carlsson Uppsala University, UCLS and Sveriges Riksbank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Julián Messina, Julián Messina Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oskar Nordström Skans Oskar Nordström Skans Uppsa…
European firm adjustment during times of economic crisis
This paper exploits a unique cross-country, firm-level survey to study the responses of European firms to the sharp demand and credit contraction triggered by the global Great Recession of 2009. The analysis reveals that cost reduction—particularly labour cost reduction through the adjustment of quantities rather than prices—was the prevailing strategy that firms had adopted by summer 2009. Remarkably, not even during the worst postwar recession …
Why Firms Avoid Cutting Wages
Firms very rarely cut nominal wages, even in the face of considerable negative economic shocks. The authors of this article use a unique survey of 14 European countries to ask firms directly about the incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why the firms avoid cutting wages. They examine how firm characteristics and collective bargaining institutions affect the relevance of each of the common explana…
The global distribution and burden of dengue
La movilidad económica y el crecimiento de la clase media en América Latina
Después de una década marcada por un crecimiento económico sostenido —a pesar de la crisis financiera global de 2008-09— y por la disminución de la desigualdad en numerosos países de América Latina y el Caribe, ha llegado el momento de evaluar las grandes tendencias socioeconómicas de esta región. La pobreza moderada disminuyó de más del 40% en 2000 a menos del 30% en 2010. Esta disminución de la pobreza significa que unos 50 millones de habitant…
Spatial and social factors drive anemia in Congolese women
Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class
After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. We propose an original definition of the middle class, tailor-made for Latin America, centered on the concept of e…
Spatial and socio-behavioral patterns of HIV prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. Our results suggest that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job turnover less counter-cyclical. Moreover, stricter EPL reduces both the creation and destruction of jobs in declining sectors relative to expandin…
How Wages Change
Workers' wages are not set in a spot market. Instead, the wages of most workers-at least those who do not switch jobs-typically change only annually and are mediated by a complex set of institutions and factors such as contracts, unions, standards of fairness, minimum wage policy, transfers of risk, and incomplete information. The goal of the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP)-a consortium of over 40 researchers with access to individu…
How Wages Change
Workers' wages are not set in a spot market. Instead, the wages of most workers-at least those who do not switch jobs-typically change only annually and are mediated by a complex set of institutions and factors such as contracts, unions, standards of fairness, minimum wage policy, transfers of risk, and incomplete information. The goal of the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP)-a consortium of over 40 researchers with access to individu…
Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. Our results suggest that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job turnover less counter-cyclical. Moreover, stricter EPL reduces both the creation and destruction of jobs in declining sectors relative to expandin…
Employment Protection Legislation, Capital Investment and Access to Credit
This article estimates the causal impact of dismissal costs on capital deepening and productivity, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust‐dismissal costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees, leaving firing costs unchanged for larger firms. We show that the rise in firing costs induced an increase in the capital‐labour ratio and a decline in total factor productivity in small firms relative to larger firms. Our results indicate that capital …
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil
Spatial and socio-behavioral patterns of HIV prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Skill premium, labor supply, and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Spatial and social factors drive anemia in Congolese women
Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
Journal Article Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks Get access Mikael Carlsson, Mikael Carlsson Uppsala University, UCLS and Sveriges Riksbank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Julián Messina, Julián Messina Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oskar Nordström Skans Oskar Nordström Skans Uppsa…
Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. Our results suggest that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job turnover less counter-cyclical. Moreover, stricter EPL reduces both the creation and destruction of jobs in declining sectors relative to expandin…
How Wages Change
Workers' wages are not set in a spot market. Instead, the wages of most workers-at least those who do not switch jobs-typically change only annually and are mediated by a complex set of institutions and factors such as contracts, unions, standards of fairness, minimum wage policy, transfers of risk, and incomplete information. The goal of the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP)-a consortium of over 40 researchers with access to individu…
Spatial and socio-behavioral patterns of HIV prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class
After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. We propose an original definition of the middle class, tailor-made for Latin America, centered on the concept of e…
The global distribution and burden of dengue
La movilidad económica y el crecimiento de la clase media en América Latina
Después de una década marcada por un crecimiento económico sostenido —a pesar de la crisis financiera global de 2008-09— y por la disminución de la desigualdad en numerosos países de América Latina y el Caribe, ha llegado el momento de evaluar las grandes tendencias socioeconómicas de esta región. La pobreza moderada disminuyó de más del 40% en 2000 a menos del 30% en 2010. Esta disminución de la pobreza significa que unos 50 millones de habitant…
Spatial and social factors drive anemia in Congolese women
European firm adjustment during times of economic crisis
This paper exploits a unique cross-country, firm-level survey to study the responses of European firms to the sharp demand and credit contraction triggered by the global Great Recession of 2009. The analysis reveals that cost reduction—particularly labour cost reduction through the adjustment of quantities rather than prices—was the prevailing strategy that firms had adopted by summer 2009. Remarkably, not even during the worst postwar recession …
Why Firms Avoid Cutting Wages
Firms very rarely cut nominal wages, even in the face of considerable negative economic shocks. The authors of this article use a unique survey of 14 European countries to ask firms directly about the incidence of wage cuts and to assess the relevance of a range of potential reasons for why the firms avoid cutting wages. They examine how firm characteristics and collective bargaining institutions affect the relevance of each of the common explana…
Employment Protection Legislation, Capital Investment and Access to Credit
This article estimates the causal impact of dismissal costs on capital deepening and productivity, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust‐dismissal costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees, leaving firing costs unchanged for larger firms. We show that the rise in firing costs induced an increase in the capital‐labour ratio and a decline in total factor productivity in small firms relative to larger firms. Our results indicate that capital …
Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
Journal Article Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks Get access Mikael Carlsson, Mikael Carlsson Uppsala University, UCLS and Sveriges Riksbank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Julián Messina, Julián Messina Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oskar Nordström Skans Oskar Nordström Skans Uppsa…
Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995–2012
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Although the conventional explanation of a falling education premium did play a role, an RIF regression-based decomposition analysis suggests that the decline in returns to potential experience was the ma…
Skill premium, labor supply, and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Firm-Level Shocks and Labour Flows
We analyse how labour flows respond to permanent idiosyncratic shifts in firm-level production functions and demand curves using very detailed Swedish micro data. Shocks to firms’ physical productivity have only modest effects on firm-level employment decisions. In contrast, we document rapid and substantial employment adjustments through hires and separations in response to firm-level demand shocks. The choice of adjustment margin depends on the…
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the Covid-19 epidemic in Brazil
Higher risk of death from Covid-19 in low-income and non-White populations of São Paulo, Brazil
Introduction Little evidence exists on the differential health effects of COVID-19 on disadvantaged population groups. Here we characterise the differential risk of hospitalisation and death in São Paulo state, Brazil, and show how vulnerability to COVID-19 is shaped by socioeconomic inequalities. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study using hospitalised severe acute respiratory infections notified from March to August 2020 in the Sistema d…
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic control measures substantially impacted the life of university students in the UK. While multiple studies investigated early stages of the pandemic, focusing on risk factors for depression and anxiety, fewer studies assessed later phases of the pandemic or examined positive protective factors for mental wellbeing. Our longitudinal study investigated changes and associations between COVID‐19 experiences, lifestyle behaviours,…
Economics (10 obras) · Labour economics (8 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras) · Firm Innovation and Growth (5 obras) · Wage (5 obras) · Macroeconomics (4 obras)