Marco Pecoraro
I am a lecturer in the MSc in Applied Economics at the University of Neuchâtel. I also work as a scientific collaborator at the Institute of Economic Research and at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
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Current positions
Research fields
Labour Economics, Education Economics, Population Economics, Statistics and Applied Econometrics
Peer-reviewed publications
'Does Certifying Foreign Qualifications Lead to Better Immigrant Skills Utilization?', Social Indicator Research, Early View (with Massimiliano Tani).
'Social media, education, and the rise of populist Euroscepticism', Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, 301, 2022 (with Piergiuseppe Fortunato).
'How effective are integration policy reforms? The case of asylum-related migrants', International Migration, 60, 95-110, 2022 (with Anita Manatschal, Eva G.T. Green and Philippe Wanner).
'Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?', European Journal of Population, 37:959–995, 2021 (with Philippe Wanner and Massimiliano Tani).
'Occupational exposure to foreigners and attitudes towards equal opportunities', Migration Studies, 8(3):382-423, 2020 (with Didier Ruedin).
'Educational mismatch and promotions to managerial positions: A test of the career mobility theory', Applied Economics, 49(12):1226-1240, 2017 (with Philipp Grunau).
'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 (with Didier Ruedin).
'The incidence and wage effects of overeducation using vertical and horizontal mismatch in skills: Evidence from Switzerland', International Journal of Manpower , 37(3):536-555, 2016.
'Is there still a wage penalty for being overeducated but well-matched in skills? A panel data analysis of a Swiss graduate cohort', Labour, 28(3):309–337, 2014.
Ph.D. thesis
"Incidence and wage effects of educational mismatch in the Swiss labour market"
under the supervision of Professors Muriel Dejemeppe and Bruno Van der Linden
Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium
Other publications
'Does the recognition of foreign credentials decrease the risk for immigrants of being mismatched in education or skills?' in: Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus. Springer International Publishing, 2019 (with Philippe Wanner)
'The gender gap in mental health: Immigrants in Switzerland', in: Women's Mental Health: Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society. Springer International Publishing, 2015 (with Jehane Simona Moussa and Didier Ruedin)
'Devenir Suisse. Les facteurs intervenant dans le choix de se naturaliser', in: Wanner, Philippe (ed.), La démographie des étrangers en Suisse . Zurich: Seismo, 2012
'Rester ou partir: les déterminants de l'émigration hors de Suisse', in: Wanner, Philippe (ed.), La démographie des étrangers en Suisse . Zurich: Seismo, 2012
Gender, brain waste and job-education mismatch among migrant workers in Switzerland, International Migration Papers 111, Geneva: ILO, 2011, download pdf
'Highly skilled migrants in the Swiss labour market with a special focus on migrants from developing countries', in: Scientific diasporas as development partners. Skilled migrants from Colombia, India and South Africa in Switzerland: empirical evidence and policy responses. Chapter 4, pages 179-195, 2010, download pdf
