Marco Pecoraro Personal data Current position Fields of interest

Marco Pecoraro
Université de Neuchâtel
SFM - Swiss Forum for Migration
and Population Studies
Faubourg de l’Hôpital 106
2000 Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
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Personal data
Date and place of birth: June 16th , 1977 in Billens (Fribourg), Switzerland
Nationality: Italian (Swiss resident)
Languages: French (native), Italian (native), English (fluent), German (basic)
Current position
2006 - present
Research Fellow at the SFM, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Fields of interest
Education Economics, Labour Economics, Population Economics (immigration, aging),
Health Economics, Statistics and Applied Econometrics.
Education
October 2013
September 2003
September 2002
Ph.D. in Economics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Master of Arts in Economics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Degree in Economics, Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Professional experience
2013 - 2014
International expert, Albanian Institute of Statistics, Albania.
2003 - 2006
Research assistant at the SFM, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2001 - 2002
Teaching assistant of Professor A. Mattei, Inférence et Décision Statistiques
(Probability & Statistics), Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Grants
2015 - 2017
“Individual-Level Attitudes towards Immigrants over Time and across Contexts”, Swiss Network for International Studies (with Didier Ruedin, Eva G. T.
Green, Tobias Müller and Sergi Pardos-Prado).
2015 - 2016
“The Effects of Labour Market Integration on Immigrants’ Health”, Swiss National Science Foundation (with Philippe Wanner and Alberto Holly).
2015
International Workshop: “Highly Skilled Migrants in the European Labour
Market: Brain Waste or Brain Gain?”, Swiss National Science Foundation (with
Didier Ruedin).
2002 - 2003
Bourses de perfectionnement et de recherche, Rectorat de l’Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thesis
Incidence and wage effects of educational mismatch in the Swiss labour market. PhD thesis, Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques, Université catholique de Louvain,
2013 (under the supervision of Professors Muriel Dejemeppe and Bruno Van der Linden).
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Forthcoming
Philipp Grunau and Marco Pecoraro. Educational mismatch and promotions
to managerial positions: A test of the career mobility theory. Applied Economics.
2016
Marco Pecoraro and Didier Ruedin. A foreigner who does not steal my job:
The role of unemployment risk and values in attitudes toward equal opportunities. International Migration Review, 50(3):628–666, 2016.
2016
Marco Pecoraro. The wage effects of overeducation using vertical and horizontal mismatch in skills: Evidence from Switzerland. International Journal of
Manpower, 37(3):536–555.
2014
Marco Pecoraro. Is there still a wage penalty for being overeducated but wellmatched in skills? A panel data analysis of a Swiss graduate cohort. LABOUR,
28(3):309–337.
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Publications in Books
2015
Jehane Simona Moussa, Marco Pecoraro, and Didier Ruedin. The gender gap in
mental health: Immigrants in Switzerland. In Khanlou Nazilla and Pilkington
F. Beryl, editors, Womens Mental Health: Resistance and Resilience in Community and
Society. Advances in Mental Health and Addiction. Springer International Publishing
Switzerland.
2012
Marco Pecoraro. Devenir Suisse. Les facteurs intervenant dans le choix de se naturaliser. In Philippe Wanner, editor, La démographie des étrangers en Suisse, pages
156–173. Zurich et Genève : Seismo.
2012
Marco Pecoraro. Rester ou partir : les déterminants de l’émigration hors de Suisse.
In Philippe Wanner, editor, La démographie des étrangers en Suisse, pages 141–155.
Zurich et Genève : Seismo.
2010
Marco Pecoraro and Rosita Fibbi. Highly skilled migrants in the Swiss labour market, with a special focus on migrants from developing countries. In Gabriela Tejada
and Jean-Claude Bolay, editors, Scientific diasporas as development partners. Skilled
migrants from Colombia, India and South Africa in Switzerland: Empirical evidence and
policy responses, pages 179–195. Peter Lang Publishers.
Work in progress
Immigrants’ occupational mismatch, up- and downgrading of wages, return and onward
migration decision (with Philippe Wanner).
A nonparametric analysis of the healthy immigrant effect (with Antonio Fidalgo, Philippe
Wanner, and Alberto Holly).
The migrant health gap and the role of labour market status in Switzerland (with Sara
Rellstab, Karine Renard, Philippe Wanner, and Alberto Holly).
Do dual citizenship rights make more and healthier Swiss citizens? (with Didier Ruedin,
Karine Renard, Philippe Wanner, and Alberto Holly).
Entrepreneurship and attitudes toward equal opportunities for foreign and Swiss citizens.
The occupational share of foreigners and attitudes to equal opportunities (with Didier
Ruedin).
Estimating the returns to educational mismatch with panel data: The role of unobserved
heterogeneity revisited.
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Presentations
Selected Conferences/Workshops: 13th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 2016, Prague; 28th
Annual Meeting conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 2016,
Berkeley; XIX Applied Economic Meeting, 2016, Seville; 30th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economists, 2015, Cagliari; 12th IMISCOE Annual Conference,
2015, Geneva; 8th International Conference of Panel Data Users, 2015, Lausanne; Workshop
on Highly Skilled Migrants in the European Labour Market, 2015, Neuchâtel; Conference
on the Economics of Educational and Skills Mismatch, 2014, Aberdeen; 11th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 2014, Madrid; 1st RWI Research Network Conference on the Economics of
Education, 2014, Berlin; ZEW Workshop on Skill Mismatch, 2014, Mannheim; 54th Annual
Conference of the Italian Economic Association, 2013, Bologna; 28th Annual Conference
of the Italian Association of Labour Economists, 2013, Rome; 11th Arnoldshain Seminar
on Migration, Development, and Demographic Change, 2013, Antwerp; 7th International
Conference of Panel Data Users, 2013, Lausanne. 2nd Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education, 2013, Lisbon; IAB International Conference on Increasing Heterogeneity in the Workforce and its Impact, 2012, Nuremberg;
Workshop on Horizontal and Vertical Overeducation, 2011, Santa Maria Capua Vetere;
26th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economists, 2011, Milan. 5th
End-Of-Year Conference of Swiss Economists Abroad, 2010, Gerzensee; 5th International
Conference of Panel Data Users, 2009, Lausanne; 14th AIDELF Conference on Population
and Labour, 2006, Aveiro; 2nd EAPS Conference on Migrations in Europe, 2004, Rome.
Seminars: Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, University of Malmö.
Brown Bag Seminar, RWI Essen. IRENE, University of Neuchâtel. Faculty of Business and
Economics, University of Basel.
Refereeing Activity
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, LABOUR, Review of Economics and Institutions,
Social Indicators Research, Research in Labor Economics, International Migration, Swiss
Journal of Sociology.
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Other Publications
Rosita Fibbi, Bülent Kaya, Jehane Moussa, Marco Pecoraro, Yannick Rossy, and Ilka Steiner.
Les Marocains, les Tunisiens et les Algériens en Suisse. Berne : Office Fédéral de la Migration,
2014.
Didier Ruedin, Gianni D’Amato, Nicole Wichmann, and Marco Pecoraro. Migrationsängste der Schweizer Bevölkerung. Eine Studie im Auftrag von swissstaffing, 2013.
Jehane Moussa and Marco Pecoraro. Ecarts de genre dans l’état de santé des migrants
et des migrantes en Suisse : Analyse des données du monitoring de santé des migrants
GMM II. Berne : Office Fédéral de la Santé Publique, 2013.
Michael Cordey, Marcia Gil, Denise Efionayi-Mäder, Bülent Kaya, and Marco Pecoraro.
Analyse des besoins en matière de promotion de la santé et de prévention pour la population issue de la migration. Etat des lieux pour les cantons de Fribourg, de Neuchâtel et du
Jura. Etude du SFM 61, Neuchâtel : Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies,
2012.
Marco Pecoraro. Gender, brain waste and job-education mismatch among migrant workers in Switzerland. International Migration Paper 111, International Labour Organization
(ILO), 2011.
Denise Efionayi-Mäder, Marco Pecoraro, and Ilka Steiner. La population subsaharienne en
Suisse : Un aperçu démographique et socio-professionnel. Etude du SFM 57, Neuchâtel :
Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, 2011.
Dina Bader, Marco Pecoraro, Silvia Schönenberger, and Nicole Wichmann. Integration im
Kanton Bern - Migrationsbevölkerung und Integrationsförderung im Fokus. Rapport SFM,
Neuchâtel : Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, 2011.
Rosita Fibbi, Claudio Bolzman, Antonio Fernandez, Andrés Gomensoro, Bülent Kaya,
Christelle Maire, Clémence Merçay, Marco Pecoraro, and Philippe Wanner. Les Portugais
en Suisse. Berne : Office Fédéral de la Migration, 2010.
Barbara Burri Sharani, Denise Efionayi-Mäder, Stephan Hammer, Marco Pecoraro, Bernhard Soland, Astrit Tsaka, and Chantal Wyssmüller. La population kosovare en Suisse. Berne :
Office Fédéral de la Migration, 2010.
Philippe Wanner, Alexis Gabadinho, and Marco Pecoraro. La situation économique des
actifs et des retraités - Rapport technique et tableaux commentés. Rapport de recherche
1/08.1, Aspects de la sécurité sociale, Berne : Office Fédéral des Assurances Sociales, 2008.
Philippe Wanner and Marco Pecoraro. La situation économique des sexagénaires SaintGallois. Rapport de recherche 1/07, Aspects de la sécurité sociale, Berne : Office Fédéral
des Assurances Sociales, 2007.
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Marco Pecoraro and Philippe Wanner. Le revenu annuel moyen déterminant comme indicateur de la situation socioconomique et financière ? Rapport de recherche 15/05, Aspects
de la sécurité sociale, Berne : Office Fédéral des Assurances Sociales, 2005.
Marco Pecoraro and Philippe Wanner. La situation économique des Neuchâtelois âgés
de 60 à 70 ans. Rapport de recherche 14/05, Aspects de la sécurité sociale, Berne : Office
Fédéral des Assurances Sociales, 2005.
Marco Pecoraro. Les migrants hautement qualifiés. In Werner Haug and Philippe Wanner,
editors, Migrants et marché du travail. Compétences et insertion professionnelle des personnes
d’origine étrangère en Suisse, pages 71–110. Neuchâtel: Office Fédéral de la Statistique, 2005.
Philippe Wanner, Marco Pecoraro, and Rosita Fibbi. Femmes étrangères et marché du
travail. In Werner Haug and Philippe Wanner, editors, Migrants et marché du travail.
Compétences et insertion professionnelle des personnes d’origine étrangère en Suisse, pages 17–
38. Neuchâtel: Office Fédéral de la Statistique, 2005.
Denise Efionayi-Mäder, Joëlle Moret, and Marco Pecoraro. Trajectoires d’asile africaines
- Déterminants des migrations d’Afrique occidentale vers la Suisse. Etude du SFM 38A,
Neuchâtel : Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, 2005.
Marco Pecoraro and Philippe Wanner. Populations étrangères à Neuchâtel et dans trois
autres cantons de la Suisse : Une analyse des recensements de la population 1970-2000.
Rapport SFM, Neuchâtel : Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, 2005.
Marco Pecoraro and Philippe Wanner. La situation économique des Valaisans âgés de 60
à 70 ans. Rapport de recherche 3/05, Aspects de la sécurité sociale, Berne : Office Fédéral
des Assurances Sociales, 2005.
Articles in magazines
“Les migrants hautement qualifiés en Suisse.” FORUM, no 4, pages 37-39, 2005.
“La situation économique des Valaisans âgés de 60 à 70 ans.” Sécurité Sociale CHSS, no 1,
pages 28-32, 2005 (with Philippe Wanner).
“Le départ à la retraite et ses conséquences sur le revenu des contribuables.” Sécurité
sociale CHSS, no 2, pages 105-110, 2005 (with Philippe Wanner).
“L’ouverture du marché du travail suisse aux flux migratoires : mythes xénophobes et
réalités économiques.”, FORUM, no 5, pages 74-78, 2005
“La suréducation parmi les migrants hautement qualifiés en Suisse.” InterDIALOGOS,
no 2, pages 3-6, 2006.
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“Hochqualifizierte Migrantinnen aus Entwicklungsländern in der Schweiz und ihr
Wirkpotenzial für die Entwicklung ihrer Herkunftsländer.” InterDIALOGOS, no 2, pages
30-33, 2006 (with Gabriela Tejada and Ibrahima Dia).
“La migration chinoise en Suisse.” Terra Cognita, no 14, pages 60-62, 2009 (with Chantal
Hebeisen and Rosita Fibbi).
“Devenir Suisse? Les déterminants de la naturalisation ordinaire.” FORUM, no 7, pages
36-38, 2010.
“Les migrant-e-s surqualifié-e-s?.” Intégration Info, no 30, pages 4-5, 2010.
“Attitudes toward Foreigners in Switzerland: Of Education and Values.” FORUM, no 8,
pages 112-113, 2013 (with Didier Ruedin).
“Le rôle du risque de chômage et des valeurs dans l’attitude envers les étrangers.” La Vie
économique, no 12, pages 54-57, 2013 (with Didier Ruedin).
Last updated: October 5, 2016