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Michele Pellizzari is a professor of economics at the Geneva School of Economics and Management of the University of Geneva. Before joining the University of Geneva, Michele was an Economist in the OECD Employment Analysis and Policy Division, and prior to that, he was an assistant professor of economics at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) and Head of Welfare Studies at the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (Milan), where he is now a Senior Fellow. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. Michele holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (London, UK) and a doctorate from the University of Verona (IT). He has visited the Economics Departments at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Vancouver School of Economics. He has been a member of the Conseil Stratégique de la Promotion Économique, the economic advisory board of the government of Geneva (2014-2018) and he often collaborates with institutions such as the OECD, the ILO, the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Education. He was a member of the Panel in Economic Sciences for the Swiss National Science Foundation (2015-2022). His main research interests lie in the area of labour, education economics and applied econometrics, and his studies have been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics, the Economic Journal, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review. He has also authored and contributed to numerous books, intended both for the academic and the wider public. He was a co-editor of Labour Economics, the Official Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists in 2016-2022.