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Giulia Vattuone is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, specializing in labor economics with a focus on gender economics and wage gap analysis. Her research examines how women sort into firms that pay lower wages and the implications for the gender wage gap.
Her research interests span labor economics, gender studies, and the impact of remote work on labor markets. She investigates primary and higher education, health, taxes and income transfers, politics, crime and punishment, and gender equality within labor market economics. Her work combines econometric methods with large-scale data analysis to understand worker sorting patterns, firm wage structures, and gender dynamics in academic and labor markets.
Vattuone's research reveals that around 20% of the gender wage gap is due to women sorting into firms that pay lower wages. Her counterfactual analyses show that over half of this sorting component is driven by differences in preferences, particularly among high-wage, mid-experience workers. She has also studied how the promotion of female professors affects future hiring decisions and PhD student composition, finding no significant increase in female hiring following such promotions but evidence of same-sex advisor preferences among PhD students.
Her recent work on remote work adoption during the pandemic shows a 300% increase in remote working in the UK, driven primarily by organizational changes at firms rather than fundamental occupational shifts.
- Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius and Tore Browaldh Foundation Grant, kr 960,000 (2025)
- Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius and Tore Browaldh Foundation Grant, kr 500,000 (2024)
- ESRC UKRI, £85,000 (2020)
Vattuone teaches Labour Economics at the BSc level at Stockholm University and previously served as a teaching assistant for Econometrics at the MSc level at Warwick University. She regularly presents her research at major economics conferences and seminars across Europe and has refereed for numerous prestigious economics journals including the Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
