Alessandro Ruggieri

Alessandro Ruggieri is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and an Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

He is a macroeconomist who focuses on Labor Economics and Development Economics. He studies the aggregate and distributional consequences of frictions and distortions in labor markets. Questions he explores include:

• How labor market institutions and functioning shape employment and wage dynamics across different stages of economic development
• How globalization, technological change, and institutional environments influence workers’ human capital accumulation and lifetime earnings trajectories
• How public policies can be designed to mitigate earnings inequality

Professor Ruggieri’s research methodology combines general equilibrium modeling with structural estimation using longitudinal survey and administrative data, as well as counterfactual analysis to quantify these effects.

Before joining IAE-CSIC and BSE, Professor Ruggieri held positions at the University of Nottingham and CUNEF Universidad. He also worked as a consultant for the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Alessandro Ruggieri earned his PhD in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).