Post-pandemic labor economy in Silicon Valley and Italy: L

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Since the pioneering phase, Italian engineers have come to the Silicon Valley contributing to its technological revolution. In the last decades, offshoring models have been successful with Silicon Valley-centered companies hiring engineers in Italy to develop their products; nevertheless, a physical presence in Silicon Valley was always deemed necessary. The explosion of remote work due to the pandemic questions whether physical presence remains necessary given that an infrastructure entirely focused on the impossibility of physical presence has been developed and exploited for more than a year. This panel will discuss the effect of the pandemic on the economy and geography of work in Silicon Valley and its relationship with Italy.

Keynote speaker:
Luigi Pistaferri
Luigi Pistaferri is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He graduated summa cum Laude from Istituto Universitario Navale in Naples (Italy) in 1993, completed a Master in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) in 1995, and a PhD in Economics at University College London in 1999. Professor Pistaferri's research is mainly on household choices: consumption, saving, portfolio allocation, labor supply, and time use. His papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Annual Review of Economics, among others. He is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economics and Policy Research, and IZA. During the 2012-17 period he was one of the co-editors of the American Economic Review. He lives in Stanford with his wife Marina and children Antonio, Bianca and Isabella Pistaferri.

Moderator:
Alessandra Cassar
Alessandra Cassar is a professor of economics at the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Economic Science Association and a former co-director of LEEPS Lab (Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her MA in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, in 1996, and her PhD in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001.

Cassar is passionate about investigating the origins of preferences and their role in development. Through laboratory and field experiments across the world, her studies focus on the contributions of genetic and cultural evolutionary processes to shaping human behavior. Her current research concentrates on the under-studied areas of female competitiveness; the consequences of conflict and disaster victimization for altruism, trust, religiosity, risk, and time preferences; and the role of social networks for economic outcomes.

She is also researching how to design programs to overcome individuals’ internal constraints to support economic empowerment.

Cassar has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of State, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Levis Strauss Foundation. Her work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, The Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among others, and appears in the popular press.

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