Associate Professor of Economics, DEPS, University of Siena.
Affiliations: IZA, GLO, LUBS (UK) FCEA-UdelaR (Uruguay)
Researching on Labour, Organizations, Human Behaviour
https://sites.google.com/view/gabrielburdin
This support will enable Julian Tiedtke (Sant'Anna - Pisa) and me to study how worker representation shapes the adoption and impacts of #AI & #robotics in the workplace
More soon!
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www.legacoopemiliaovest.it/home/la-coop...
#TerzaMissione
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New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
Alessandro Tavoni @atavoni.bsky.social (@unibo.it)
"Individual vs Collective Climate Action: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey Experiment in Italy"
🗓️⏲️Jan 28, 3 pm Goodwin Room (DEPS, 2nd floor)
@gabrielburdin.bsky.social @deps-siena.bsky.social and Fabio Landini (University of Parma) for @lsebr.bsky.social
Drawing on new research with Fabio Landini, we discuss how beliefs shape demand for worker ownership. Check it out 👇
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Excited to kick off a new semester of the @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
@pietrodallara.bsky.social (University of Naples “Federico II”)
"Screening in digital monopolies"
🗓️⏲️Jan 21, 3 pm Goodwin Room (DEPS, 2nd floor)
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@glasgow.ac.uk #medievalsky
➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...
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Next week, we’ll announce our first Distinguished Visitor, who will visit @DepsUSiena next spring.
You can start guessing… it’s a leading economist with major contributions to labor economics!
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We study +30k subsidy initiatives:
• Subsidies boost entry of ~5.5% less productive firms
• Unconditional tax breaks & loans drive the negative effects
• Intl., SME-focused & green/automation subsidies can improve entrant quality
👉 tinyurl.com/2b3kzbdm
More soon!
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@deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!
@robertoiacono.org (NTNU)
"Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform"
🗓️⏲️ Nov 5, 15:00, Goodwin Room #Siena
Many thanks to colleagues for the invitation and insightful exchanges.
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#Economics #Statistics #Siena #ResearchDay
👉https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5362985
💡 Low-cost informational interventions can boost societal support for employee ownership.
But belief updating alone may not trigger career choices → deeper barriers remain.
👉Demand effects: shift in policy preferences persists even in an obfuscated follow-up survey
👉(Non-preregistered) analysis of open-text responses with human coders + ChatGPT adjudication of disputes
👉Worker ownership has the potential to improve firm and worker outcomes
👉Uptake is low not only due to wealth constraints, risk aversion or decision costs, as emphasized by traditional explanations, but also due to biased priors and negative narratives.
Control: “exploitation,” “low pay,” “instability.”
Treatment: “solidarity,” “cooperation,” “jobs.”
Information reduced negative first-order concerns about cooperatives and increased positive ones.
Result:
✅ Beliefs shifted (more optimistic)
✅ Policy support ↑ (“govt should support the creation of co-ops”)
❌ BUT career intentions did not change
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🔍 Priors: Young adults were much more pessimistic than international experts about the relative performance of worker cooperatives.
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We asked: what do people believe about worker co-ops vs conventional firms (firm productivity, survival, inequality, employment stability)?
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Why are employee-owned firms with majority workforce control (e.g., worker cooperatives) so rare, despite evidence showing they perform at least as well as investor-owned firms in many contexts?
We argue: beliefs play a key role.
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Conduct research on Worker Voice, Wages & Technological Change: The Role of Collective Bargaining, Unions & Employee Representation.
Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 2 pm (CET)
Application procedure:
unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
#econsky
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Conduct research on Worker Voice, Wages & Technological Change: The Role of Collective Bargaining, Unions & Employee Representation.
Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 2 pm (CET)
Application procedure:
unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
Still a working draft - comments are welcome!
Link 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
One tied to research on worker voice, collective bargaining, wages & tech change.
Apply by July 30, 2025 👉
phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-pr...
#econsky
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“Incentive Pay, Managerial Skills and Span of Control”
w/ F. Landini & S. Dughera.
Why do some firms rely more on bonuses than others? We show that incentive pay is more likely when managers are better educated and hierarchies are wider.
WP 👉 shorturl.at/7LgAj