Monica Galizzi

Collaboratrice esterna
External researcher
Monica Galizzi

Studi

  • Ph.D.in Economics, Boston University, 1994
  • Dottorato in Politica Economica, Università Cattolica, Bocconi and Statale, Milan, 1990
  • Master in Political Economy, Boston University, 1990
  • Laurea in Economia e Commercio, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy, 1986

Lavoro

2016-present: Chair, Department of Economics, UMass Lowell
2014-present: Director of University Partnerships with Italian Universities, UMass Lowell
2010-present: Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UMass Lowell
2010-2012: Co-Director, Economic and Social Development of Regions Master Program
2007-present: Senior Associate, Leadership Team, Center for Women and Work, UMass Lowell
2004-2010: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UMass Lowell
1999-2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
1998-99: Administrative Director for National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Program on the Economics of Children and Aging, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA
1994-98: Economist, Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), Cambridge, MA
1993-94: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for Studies on the Economics of Labor Markets and Labor Organization, Faculty of Economics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1992: Intern, The World Bank, Policy Research Department
1990-93: Instructor, Boston University, Courses in Microeconomics
1989-90: Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Department of Economics
1986-87: Researcher Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy.

Pubblicazioni in riviste accademiche

"Pay Mix Policies as (Dis)Incentives in Motivated Job Choice Decisions." (with Kimberly Merriman, Lauren Turner, and Michelle Haynes Baratz). 2016. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(2), 184-91.

"Injured workers and their return to work. Beyond individual disability and economic incentives." (with Roberto Leombruni, Lia Pacelli, Antonella Bena). 2016. Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, 4(1), 2-29.

"Workers' Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries" (with Tommaso Tempesti). 2015. Risk Analysis, October, 35 (10), 1858-75.

"Bringing the Pin factory to Life: Field Trips and Discussions as Forms of Experiential Learning." 2014. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 14 (5), 27-47.

"Employment outcomes for young adults with autism spectrum disorders". (with Ashleigh Hillier), 2014, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, Volume 10 (1), 2014.

"On the Recurrence of Occupational Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims" 2013, Health Economics, Volume 22, pp.582-99.

"Firms' Perceptions of Health and Environmental Hazards and Regulation: Evidence from a Survey of U.S. Nanotechnologies Companies" 2011, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Volume 12 (6), pp. 70-82

"An Assessment of the Impact of Online Quizzes and Textbook Resources on Students’ Learning" 2010, International Review of Economic Education, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 31-43

"Injured Workers' Underreporting in the Health Care Industry" (with Petra Miesmaa, Laura Punnett, Craig Slatin and PHASE), 2010, Industrial Relations, Vol. 49, pp.22–42 (January)

"Ergonomic and Socio Economic Risk Factors for Hospital Workers Compensation Injury Claims" (with Jon Boyer, Manuel Cifuentes, Angelo D’Errico, Rebecca Gore, Laura Punnett, Craig Slatin and PHASE), 2009, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 52, pp.551–62

"How Do On-the-Job Injuries and Illnesses Impact Wealth?" (with J. Zagorsky), 2009, Labour Economics, Volume 16, n. 1, pp.26-36.

"Wage Changes, Employment Growth, and the Effect of Composition Bias" 2005, Eastern Economic Journal, Volume 3, n. 2, Spring, pp.165-184, This article won the 2005/2006 Eastern Economic Association Eckstein Prize.

"Conducting Interdisciplinary Research to Promote Healthy and Safe Employment in Healthcare: Promises and Pitfalls" (with C. Slatin, K. Melillo, B. Mawn and PHASE), 2004, Public Health Reports, Volume 119, January-February.

"Income Losses of Women and Men Injured at Work" (with L.Boden), 2003, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 38, n. 3, Summer, pp.722-757

"The Return to Work of Injured Workers: New Evidence from Matched Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Compensation Data" (with L. Boden), 2003, Labour Economics, Volume10, pp. 311-337.

"Gender and Labor Attachment: Do Within-Firms Relative Wages Matter?" 2001, Industrial Relations, Volume 40, n. 4, pp. 591-619.

"Economic Consequences of Workplace Injuries: Lost Earnings and Benefit Adequacy" (with L. Boden), 1999, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 36, n. 5, pp. 487-503.

"Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior" (with K. Lang), 1998, Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 16, n. 2, pp. 367-391.

Libri e monografie

Mobility, Relative Wages and Wage Growth. An Analysis of the Italian Labor Market in the Early 1980s (with a postscript by Kevin Lang), 2005, Franco Angeli Editore, Milano, Italy.

Predictors of Multiple Workers' Compensation Claims in Wisconsin (with G.A.Gotz and T. Liu), 2000, Workers Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Workers' Story: Results of a Survey of Workers Injured in Wisconsin (with L. Boden and T. Liu), 1998, Workers Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

What Are The Most Important Factors Shaping Return to Work? Evidence from Wisconsin (with L. Boden), 1996, Workers Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ricerche finanziate

2015: "Interdisciplinary Examination of the Health Care Experience of those with Autism Spectrum Disorders". UML Grant. Co-PI with Ashley Hillier (Psychology)

2010-2014: "From Work to Health and Back: The Right to a Healthy Working Life in a Changing Society", Piedmont Region, Torino, Italy (Co-Investigator)

2009-2011: "The Effect of Occupational Injuries on Families' Social and Economic Wellbeing" UML Grant for Research and Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Lowell (PI)

2003-2007: "On-The- Job Injuries: Employment History and Hidden Losses" Research Scientist Development Award, K01,National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (PI)

2000-2006: "Health Disparities Among Healthcare Workers" National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Co-Investigator)

2001-2002: "A preliminary study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 as a new source of information about on-the-job injuries" Seed Grant Research Proposal, University of Massachusetts Lowell (PI)

2000: "Long-term consequences of job related disabilities" Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts Lowell (PI)

1991: Grant to support one year of research activity abroad, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

1986: Grant to support research for Undergraduate Thesis, Federation of Christian Organizations for International Voluntary Service, Milan, Italy

Ricerche in corso

  • "Mothers’ Occupational Injuries and Children’s Wellbeing". Grant proposal to be resubmitted to NICHD
  • "Gender Identity, Psychological Entitlement and Entrepreneurship: A Case of the Difference Maker Project at UMass Lowell" with Andrea Andzenge (PhD student), Kim Merriman (PI) and Monica Galizzi and Yi Yang as coinvestigators.
  • "Interdisciplinary Examination of the Health Care Experience of those with Autism Spectrum Disorders" with Ashleigh Hillier and Kianna Ferrante
  • "Labor market liberalization and successful return to work for Italian injured workers" with Lia Pacelli and Roberto Leombruni
  • "Recruiting Gender Diversity: Inadvertent Signaling and Sorting Effects of Job Ads". With Kim Merriman and Michelle Hayes
  • "Do Injuries Jeopardize Employment?" (unpublished manuscript)
  • "On the relationship between the Workers’ Compensation System and the Personal Bankruptcy System" with Jay Zagorski

Attività

Journals: American Economic Review, European Economic Review, European Journal of Health Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, International Review of Economic Education, LABOUR, Labour Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation

Others: -National Academy of Social Insurance, Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise (VQR 2004-2010), NSF, NIOSH, Workers Compensation Research Institute, McGraw-Hill/Irwin -Referee for the evaluation of research products of Italian Universities (Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise, VQR 2004-2010).

Membro di Associazioni Professionali

2004-present: Society of Labor Economics

2010-present: Society of Health Economics

1996-present: Eastern Economic Association

1994-present: Committee for Status of Women in the Economic Profession

1994-present: American Economic Association

1994-present: European Economic Association

1994-present: Workers' Compensation Research Group

Riconoscimenti Professionali e Premi

  • Nominated and invited to participate to the White House Summit on Working Families, Washington DC, June,2014
  • Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, 2012
  • Teaching Innovation Program Certificate of Achievement, AEA Committee on Economic Education, 2010
  • Economics Department Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2008
  • Winner of the 2005/2006 Eckstein Prize for best article, Eastern Economic Association, 2007
  • Economics Department Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2003
  • Fellowship from the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER), Turin, Italy
  • Award "Ezio Tarantelli", Cassa di Risparmio di Piacenza, Italy, 1988

Attività Professionali

  • Member of the MassCOSH Worker Center Women’s Committee Advisory Board for the study titled “Latinas Transforming Research into Action to Stop Harassment and Violence at Work.”. 2016
  • Member of policy work group (PWG) on “Job Retention/Creation for Workers who Experience Productivity Loss”. The PWG is led by Dr. Kevin Hollenbeck (Upjohn Institute) as part of ODEP’s (Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor) Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policy Collaborative. 2015
  • Facilitator of the “$tart $mart: Wage Negotiation Workshop for Women Students.” AAUW and The WAGE Project. 2013-present
  • Member of the Cary Lectures Committee in Lexington, MA. 2015-present

Insegnamento a UML

Courses: Economics I (Principles of Microeconomics), Economics II (Principles of Macroeconomics), Health Economics, Labor Economics, The Future of Work in the Global Economy

Faculty Advisor: Local Chapter of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society (Chapter Advisor of the two national winners of the of the 2015 Charles Phillips Outstanding Student Leadership Award ) and UML Economics Club

Education

  • Ph.D.in Economics, Boston University, 1994
  • Dottorato in Politica Economica, Università Cattolica, Bocconi and Statale, Milan, 1990
  • Master in Political Economy, Boston University, 1990
  • Laurea in Economia e Commercio, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy, 1986

Positions

2016-present: Chair, Department of Economics, UMass Lowell
2014-present: Director of University Partnerships with Italian Universities, UMass Lowell
2010-present: Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UMass Lowell
2010-2012: Co-Director, Economic and Social Development of Regions Master Program
2007-present: Senior Associate, Leadership Team, Center for Women and Work, UMass Lowell
2004-2010: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UMass Lowell
1999-2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
1998-99: Administrative Director for National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Program on the Economics of Children and Aging, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA
1994-98: Economist, Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), Cambridge, MA
1993-94: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for Studies on the Economics of Labor Markets and Labor Organization, Faculty of Economics, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1992: Intern, The World Bank, Policy Research Department
1990-93: Instructor, Boston University, Courses in Microeconomics
1989-90: Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Department of Economics
1986-87: Researcher Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy.

Selected publications in professional journals

"Pay Mix Policies as (Dis)Incentives in Motivated Job Choice Decisions." (with Kimberly Merriman, Lauren Turner, and Michelle Haynes Baratz). 2016. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(2), 184-91.

"Injured workers and their return to work. Beyond individual disability and economic incentives." (with Roberto Leombruni, Lia Pacelli, Antonella Bena). 2016. Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, 4(1), 2-29.

"Workers' Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries" (with Tommaso Tempesti). 2015. Risk Analysis, October, 35 (10), 1858-75.

"Bringing the Pin factory to Life: Field Trips and Discussions as Forms of Experiential Learning." 2014. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 14 (5), 27-47.

"Employment outcomes for young adults with autism spectrum disorders". (with Ashleigh Hillier), 2014, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, Volume 10 (1), 2014.

"On the Recurrence of Occupational Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims" 2013, Health Economics, Volume 22, pp.582-99.

"Firms' Perceptions of Health and Environmental Hazards and Regulation: Evidence from a Survey of U.S. Nanotechnologies Companies" 2011, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Volume 12 (6), pp. 70-82

"An Assessment of the Impact of Online Quizzes and Textbook Resources on Students’ Learning" 2010, International Review of Economic Education, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 31-43

"Injured Workers' Underreporting in the Health Care Industry" (with Petra Miesmaa, Laura Punnett, Craig Slatin and PHASE), 2010, Industrial Relations, Vol. 49, pp.22–42 (January)

"Ergonomic and Socio Economic Risk Factors for Hospital Workers Compensation Injury Claims" (with Jon Boyer, Manuel Cifuentes, Angelo D’Errico, Rebecca Gore, Laura Punnett, Craig Slatin and PHASE), 2009, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 52, pp.551–62

"How Do On-the-Job Injuries and Illnesses Impact Wealth?" (with J. Zagorsky), 2009, Labour Economics, Volume 16, n. 1, pp.26-36.

"Wage Changes, Employment Growth, and the Effect of Composition Bias" 2005, Eastern Economic Journal, Volume 3, n. 2, Spring, pp.165-184, This article won the 2005/2006 Eastern Economic Association Eckstein Prize.

"Conducting Interdisciplinary Research to Promote Healthy and Safe Employment in Healthcare: Promises and Pitfalls" (with C. Slatin, K. Melillo, B. Mawn and PHASE), 2004, Public Health Reports, Volume 119, January-February.

"Income Losses of Women and Men Injured at Work" (with L.Boden), 2003, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 38, n. 3, Summer, pp.722-757

"The Return to Work of Injured Workers: New Evidence from Matched Unemployment Insurance and Workers' Compensation Data" (with L. Boden), 2003, Labour Economics, Volume10, pp. 311-337.

"Gender and Labor Attachment: Do Within-Firms Relative Wages Matter?" 2001, Industrial Relations, Volume 40, n. 4, pp. 591-619.

"Economic Consequences of Workplace Injuries: Lost Earnings and Benefit Adequacy" (with L. Boden), 1999, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 36, n. 5, pp. 487-503.

"Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior" (with K. Lang), 1998, Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 16, n. 2, pp. 367-391.

Books and Monographs

Mobility, Relative Wages and Wage Growth. An Analysis of the Italian Labor Market in the Early 1980s (with a postscript by Kevin Lang), 2005, Franco Angeli Editore, Milano, Italy.

Predictors of Multiple Workers' Compensation Claims in Wisconsin (with G.A.Gotz and T. Liu), 2000, Workers Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Workers' Story: Results of a Survey of Workers Injured in Wisconsin (with L. Boden and T. Liu), 1998, Workers Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

What Are The Most Important Factors Shaping Return to Work? Evidence from Wisconsin (with L. Boden), 1996, Workers Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Grants

2015: "Interdisciplinary Examination of the Health Care Experience of those with Autism Spectrum Disorders". UML Grant. Co-PI with Ashley Hillier (Psychology)

2010-2014: "From Work to Health and Back: The Right to a Healthy Working Life in a Changing Society", Piedmont Region, Torino, Italy (Co-Investigator)

2009-2011: "The Effect of Occupational Injuries on Families' Social and Economic Wellbeing" UML Grant for Research and Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Lowell (PI)

2003-2007: "On-The- Job Injuries: Employment History and Hidden Losses" Research Scientist Development Award, K01,National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (PI)

2000-2006: "Health Disparities Among Healthcare Workers" National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Co-Investigator)

2001-2002: "A preliminary study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 as a new source of information about on-the-job injuries" Seed Grant Research Proposal, University of Massachusetts Lowell (PI)

2000: "Long-term consequences of job related disabilities" Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts Lowell (PI)

1991: Grant to support one year of research activity abroad, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

1986: Grant to support research for Undergraduate Thesis, Federation of Christian Organizations for International Voluntary Service, Milan, Italy

Research in Progress

  • "Mothers’ Occupational Injuries and Children’s Wellbeing". Grant proposal to be resubmitted to NICHD
  • "Gender Identity, Psychological Entitlement and Entrepreneurship: A Case of the Difference Maker Project at UMass Lowell" with Andrea Andzenge (PhD student), Kim Merriman (PI) and Monica Galizzi and Yi Yang as coinvestigators.
  • "Interdisciplinary Examination of the Health Care Experience of those with Autism Spectrum Disorders" with Ashleigh Hillier and Kianna Ferrante
  • "Labor market liberalization and successful return to work for Italian injured workers" with Lia Pacelli and Roberto Leombruni
  • "Recruiting Gender Diversity: Inadvertent Signaling and Sorting Effects of Job Ads". With Kim Merriman and Michelle Hayes
  • "Do Injuries Jeopardize Employment?" (unpublished manuscript)
  • "On the relationship between the Workers’ Compensation System and the Personal Bankruptcy System" with Jay Zagorski

Refereeing Activities

Journals: American Economic Review, European Economic Review, European Journal of Health Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, International Review of Economic Education, LABOUR, Labour Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation

Others: -National Academy of Social Insurance, Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise (VQR 2004-2010), NSF, NIOSH, Workers Compensation Research Institute, McGraw-Hill/Irwin -Referee for the evaluation of research products of Italian Universities (Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise, VQR 2004-2010).

Membership in Professional Societies

2004-present: Society of Labor Economics

2010-present: Society of Health Economics

1996-present: Eastern Economic Association

1994-present: Committee for Status of Women in the Economic Profession

1994-present: American Economic Association

1994-present: European Economic Association

1994-present: Workers' Compensation Research Group

Professional Honors and Awards

  • Nominated and invited to participate to the White House Summit on Working Families, Washington DC, June,2014
  • Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, 2012
  • Teaching Innovation Program Certificate of Achievement, AEA Committee on Economic Education, 2010
  • Economics Department Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2008
  • Winner of the 2005/2006 Eckstein Prize for best article, Eastern Economic Association, 2007
  • Economics Department Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2003
  • Fellowship from the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER), Turin, Italy
  • Award "Ezio Tarantelli", Cassa di Risparmio di Piacenza, Italy, 1988

Professional Activities

  • Member of the MassCOSH Worker Center Women’s Committee Advisory Board for the study titled “Latinas Transforming Research into Action to Stop Harassment and Violence at Work.”. 2016
  • Member of policy work group (PWG) on “Job Retention/Creation for Workers who Experience Productivity Loss”. The PWG is led by Dr. Kevin Hollenbeck (Upjohn Institute) as part of ODEP’s (Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor) Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Policy Collaborative. 2015
  • Facilitator of the “$tart $mart: Wage Negotiation Workshop for Women Students.” AAUW and The WAGE Project. 2013-present
  • Member of the Cary Lectures Committee in Lexington, MA. 2015-present

Teaching at UML

Courses: Economics I (Principles of Microeconomics), Economics II (Principles of Macroeconomics), Health Economics, Labor Economics, The Future of Work in the Global Economy

Faculty Advisor: Local Chapter of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society (Chapter Advisor of the two national winners of the of the 2015 Charles Phillips Outstanding Student Leadership Award ) and UML Economics Club