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. Before 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 at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn. He is an an External Research Fellow Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at the University College London. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. His main research interests lie in the area of labour, education economics and applied econometrics.