Andrea Bassanini is a senior economist in the Jobs and Income Division of the Directorate of Employment, Labor and Social Affairs of the OECD, and research fellow at IZA. He is editor of the OECD Employment Outlook. Previously, he was responsible for the OECD database on Employment Protection Legislation and worked as project leader for several OECD projects including the re-evaluation of the OECD Jobs Strategy and many reports including on workplace training, labor market discrimination, employment protection legislation, labor contracts, gross job flows and productivity, as well as labor market monopsony. He was also associate professor of economics at the University of Paris 13 and research fellow at ERMES (University of Paris 2). He received his PhD from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome and his MSc from the University of Oxford.
