Luca Flabbi

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina

Luca Flabbi is an applied microeconomist with expertise in labor, population and development economics. His research focuses on gender discrimination, labor market search and frictions, earnings inequality, labor market informality, simultaneous marriage and labor market searches, intergenerational mobility, and schooling decisions. Recently, he has completed work on the labor market institutions leading to informal labor contracts and on the importance of child care markets for parental labor supply and child development. He has published widely in economics research journals such as the International Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics and the Economics Journal and in policy publications such as the Development in the Americas flagship of the Inter-American Development Bank. Before joining UNC-Chapel Hill, he worked at Georgetown University and at the Inter-American Development Bank. He is Co-Editor of Labour Economics, The Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.