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FLAVIANA PALMISANO
Université du Luxembourg
IRSEI/INSIDE
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Web page: https://sites.google.com/site/flavianapalmisano/
Personal: born October 11, 1983, Taranto (IT), Italian.
Current position
Post-Doc researcher (FNR/Marie Curie fellow) at IRSEI-INSIDE, Université du Luxembourg.
Past position
2015- French national competition for university professorship (Qualification Maître de conférences, section 5 CNU Sciences Economiques).
2012-2013: Post-doc fellow at University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’.
Research interests
Theory and analysis of income distribution: inequality, poverty, income mobility, equality of opportunity.
Education
• PhD in Economics, University of Bari, 2011.
Thesis: "On the measurement of growth, poverty, and mobility", Supervisor: Prof. Vito Peragine.
• M.Sc. in Economics, University of Edinburgh (U.K.), 2009.
• MA in Economics and Management (110/110 cum laude), University of Bari, 2007.
Training programmes
• Inequality Workshop “Inequality by the numbers”
LIS Center, Graduate Center, CUNY (US), 2015
• LIS Introductory Summer Workshop
Luxembourg Income Study, Luxembourg, 2014.
• Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (Different editions)
Department of Economic Science, University of Verona, Alba di Canazei, from 2010 to 2015.
• Summer School in Applied Economics (SEEC 2008)
Facoltà di Economia, University of Salento, Lecce, 2008.
Scholarships and fellowships
• Marie Curie fellowship (2014-2016).
• Post-doc fellowship, Department of Economics and Mathematics, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 2012-2013.
• Scholarship awarded by Ministero dell'Istruzione, Università e Ricerca (Italy) for the Ph.D. in Economics at University
of Bari, 2008-2010.
• Scholarship awarded by Assessorato al Diritto allo Studio, Università e Ricerca, Regione Puglia (Italy), for Research
Activities based on International Collaboration, 2010.
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Visiting experiences
• July 2014: CERDI, Université d’Auvergne, France.
• February-May 2013/November 2013-January 2014: CIRPEE, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
• March-July 2012: Department of Applied Economics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
• August-October 2010: Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Denver, US.
• November 2009: Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway.
Conferences, workshops and seminars
2015: 56th Meeting of the Italian Economic Association, Naples, Italy; Second SITES/IDEAs Annual Conference,
Florence, Italy; 16th Annual Conference of Public Economic Theory Association (PET 15), Luxembourg; Seminar
at Semilux seminars, University of Luxembourg and LISER (former CEPS/INSTEAD).
2014: 55th Meeting of the Italian Economic Association, Trento, Italy; 33rd IARIW General Conference, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands; 13th Journées Louis-André Gerard-Varet, Aix-en-Provence, France.
2013: VII workshop of the GRASS, Pisa, Italy; V Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Bari,
Italy; 12th Journées Louis-André Gerard-Varet, Aix-en-Provence, France; Seminar at CIRPEE, Université Laval,
Québec, Canada.
2012: XXXVII Conference of the Spanish Economic Association (SAEe), Vigo, Spain; XXIX SIEP Meeting, Pavia,
Italy; VI workshop of the GRASS, Academia Belgica and LUISS University, Rome, Italy; Second World Bank
Conference on Equity, World Bank, Washington D.C., US; Seminar at the Department of Applied Economics,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
2011: IV Annual Conference ESPAnet Italia 2011, Milano, Italy; XXIII SIEP Meeting, Pavia, Italy; IV Meeting
of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Italy; Seminar at the Department of Economics and
Mathematics, University of Bari, Italy.
2010: X Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Moscow, Russia; Seminar at the Department of
Economics and Mathematics, University of Bari, Italy.
Other professional activities
• 2016: Co-organizer of a session on “Economic Mobility and Health” for the 34th IARIW General Conference, Germany.
• 2015: Member of the Local Organizer Committee of the Sixth Ecineq meeting-Luxembourg 2015.
• 2013-2014: Researcher for the project "Crisi economica, nuove povertà e politiche di inclusione presso la Regione
Puglia", University of Bari.
• 2012-2013: Member of the Local Organizer Committee of the Fifth Ecineq meeting-Bari 2013.
• May-June 2012: Consultant for the Economic Policy Sector, World Bank, Washington DC.
• 2011-2012: Researcher for the project "Povertà e politiche sociali in Puglia", Fondazione "G. Brodolini", Rome.
• 2007-2008: Research assistant for the project "L'aquila e il falcone volano insieme - AQUIFALC", University of Bari.
• 2007-2008: Research assistant for the project "Prima indagine sulla povertà e l'esclusione sociale in Puglia", University
of Bari.
Referee
Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Regional and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth,
The Italian Journal of Public Economics, Bulletin of Economic Research.
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Publications
Articles in refereed journals
1. The distributional incidence of growth: a social welfare approach (with Vito Peragine). Review of Income and Wealth,
61(3), 2015.
2. Economic growth and equality of opportunity (with Vito Peragine and Paolo Brunori). World Bank Economic Review,
28(2), 247-281, 2014.
3. Mobility and Long term Equality of Opportunity. Research on Economic Inequality, 19, 51-75, 2011.
Book Chapters
1. Dinamiche distributive in un periodo di crisi (with Francesca Marino). In Peragine V. (Ed.) Povertà e Politiche di
Inclusione Sociale. Differenze e Confronti Territoriali, Carocci Editore, chapter 1, 2014.
2. Povertà economica in Puglia e in Italia: entità e caratteristiche (with Francesca Marino). In Peragine V. (Ed.) Povertà e
Politiche di Inclusione Sociale. Differenze e Confronti Territoriali, Carocci Editore, chapter 2, 2014.
3. Povertà e politiche di inclusione sociale. Tra vincoli di bilancio, equità e politiche di crescita (with Vito Peragine and
Paolo Brunori). In Aulenta M. and Uricchio A. (Ed.) Dalla Finanza Pubblica Europea al Governo degli Enti Territoriali,
CEDAM editore, 2014.
4. La povertà in Puglia e in Italia (with Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga). In Peragine V. (Ed.) Famiglie e nuove povertà.
Politiche regionali sulla non autosufficienza, chapter 1, Carocci editore, 2012.
5. A Critical Assessment of the Governance Structure of the Transport Sector in Albania (and in the other Balkans
Countries) (with Angela S. Bergantino and Annalisa Vinella). In Capolupo R., Cani S., Ferri G. (Eds.) Towards European
Integration: Cooperation and Development Across the Adriatic Basin, Radio, Bari, pp 247-271, 2009.
Working Papers
1. Evaluating patterns of income growth when status matters: a robust approach, SERIES Working Paper N.
04/2015.
2. Intertemporal pro-poorness (with Florent Bresson and Jean-Yves Duclos), ECINEQ Working Paper No. 368,
2015.
3. Inequality of opportunity during the great recession in Uganda (with Paolo Brunori and Vito Peragine), UNUWIDER Working Papers n. 2015/039, 2015
4. Income taxation and equity: new dominance criteria and an application to Romania (with Paolo Brunori and
Vito Peragine), EUROMOD Working Papers Series 19/14, 2014.
5. History-dependent growth incidence: a characterization with an application to the Italian economic crisis (with
Dirk Van de gaer). ECINEQ Working Paper No. 314, 2013.
Work in Progress
1. Inequality and growth (with Conchita D’Ambrosio).
2. Inequality of opportunity in South Saharan Africa (with Paolo Brunori and Vito Peragine).
3. Dynamics of income rank volatility (with Louis Chauvel and Anne Hartung).
4. Intertemporal growth incidence curve.
5. Economic growth and the middle class.
Other
1. What is the effect of growth on the distribution of opportunities? (with Vito Peragine and Paolo Brunori). In Research
Digest, World Bank, 8(2).
2. Povertà e disuguaglianza nella provincia di Taranto: un’analisi territoriale dei dati delle dichiarazioni fiscali (with
Giuseppe Coco and Vito Peragine). Chapter 1, in Coco G. and Peragine V. (eds) Lotta alla povertà e all’esclusione
sociale in provincia di Taranto, Quaderni del progetto, Bari, 2008. pp. 6-64.
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3. Povertà e dinamica del mercato del lavoro nella provincia di Taranto una analisi sui dati dell’occupazione e sulle
remunerazioni (with Giuseppe Coco, Vito Peragine and Michele Raitano). Chapter 3, in Coco G. and Peragine V. (eds)
Lotta alla povertà e all’esclusione sociale in provincia di Taranto, Quaderni del progetto, Bari, 2008. pp. 77-124.
Teaching experience
• December 2014: Invited Lecturer in Sustainable Development, LUMSA University, Rome.
• 2011-2013: Teaching instructor in Public Economics, II Faculty of Economics (Taranto), University of Bari.
• 2009-2012: Teaching assistant in Public Finance, Department of Economics and Mathematics, University of Bari.
• 2009-2012: Teaching assistant in Public Finance, II Faculty of Economics (Taranto), University of Bari.
Languages
English: Fluent. French: Fluent. Italian: Native tongue. Spanish: Basic.
Informatics knowledge
MS Office; Scientific Workplace; LaTeX; Stata.
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