Curriculum Vitae

Agata Maida

CURRENT POSITION

  • 2002 - Researcher at LABORatorio R. Revelli – Centre for Employment Studies (Torino)

  • 2001 - Research fellow at Department of Economics “Cognetti De Martiis”, University of Torino

 

EDUCATION 

  • 1991-97 - BSc (mark110/110 cum laude) Economics and Social Science- specialization in Economics  Univeristà of Calabria

  • 1997-98 - Masters Degree in Economics, CORIPE Piemonte - Consortium for Research and Continuing Education in Economics

  • 1999-2000 - Masters Degree in Economics, University of York, York (UK)

  • 20/01/2003 - PH.D European Economic Studies, PH. D coordinator Prof. Vittorio Valli, Supervisors: Prof. Bruno Contini, Prof. Vittorio Valli

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 

  • 2002- Researcher LABORatorio R.Revelli, Centre for Employment Studies 

  • October 1998- February 1999 Research  Assistant  Banco di Sicilia and University of Palermo

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2002-03 University of Torino, Faculty of Political Science -Teaching Assistant, course: “Labour Economics”, Prof. D. Del Boca

  • 2003-04 University of Torino, Faculty of Political Science, Teaching Assistant, course: “Economics”  Prof. M. Botticini  and  V. Grisoli

 

HONOURS AND AWARDS

  • 1997 AISRe (Italian Association  of Regional Economics), Milan Italy -Thesis awarded the G. Leonardi Prize

  • 1999 Scholarship “Fondazione Bonino Apulejo”, Messina

  • 1998-2001 University of Torino, Faculty of Political Science, Research Fellowship

  • 2000-2001 Appointed “Cultore della materia” (expert in the field): Labour economics  University of Torino, Faculty of Political Science

  • 2001-05 Research Fellowship in Economics and Statistics: “Labour, unemployment, mobility in Italy in a comparative prospective”; project coordinator: Prof. Bruno Contini, University of Torino, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Economics.

 

COURSES AND SUMMER SCHOOL

  • July 2003 Merss Summer School: Empirical Economics, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

 

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

  • AISRe, Italian Regional Economics Society, XVIII conference, Siracusa , Italy October 1997

  • Centre of Employment Studies, Torino, Italy, December 2003

  • AIEL, Italian Labour Economist Association,  XVIII Conference, Messina, Italy September 2003

  • Workshop on Dynamics and Inertia  in the Italian Labour Market, April 2004 Venezia.

  • "Growth and Employment in Industrialised Countries - Challenges and Options" May 2004 Vienna (Austria)

  • Workshop AISRI-AIEL “ Accordo  di Luglio e struttura dei salari” , Bergamo,  June  2004 XIX Conferenza AIEL, Modena, Italy  23-24 settembre 2004

  • Econometrics of labour demand, AEA conference (Applied econometrics society), Mons, Belgium October 2004, Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Venezia, Italy  January, 2005

  • Royal Economic Society , Marzo 2005, Nottingham (UK)

  • Workshop “Metodi e applicazioni per la valutazione delle politiche del lavoro e di aiuto alle imprese” Napoli, 29 settembre-1 ottobre 2005

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Labour Economics: labour market policy evaluation, wage structures, wage  mobility, wage rigidity, wage inequality; Internal Labour Market and Personnel   Economics

  • Applied micro-econometrics

  • International Economics, Comparative Economic Studies

  • Regional Economics

 

LANGUAGES

  • Italian: mother tongue

  • English: fluent, both spoken and written

  • German: basic knowledge

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Windows xp (expert user)

  • Econometric/Statistical Packages: STATA 8.0 (Expert user)

  • Basic knowledge of Gauss,  Matlab, SAS. Limdep.

 

As of October 2005