Dr Davide Rigo PhD

• Ph.D. Economics, The Graduate Institute (IHEID)
• MSc (distinction) Economic and Social Sciences, Bocconi University
• BSc (distinction) Statistics, University of Padova

Before joining Birmingham, Davide was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a Fellow in Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. He also worked with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank Group and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

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Davide is interested in supervising PhD students working in his areas of research.

In his research, he examines how digital technologies and remote/hybrid work arrangements are transforming labour markets, firms and the wider economy. His work also investigates how innovation and digitalisation affect inequalities across firms and places. He also studies how international trade agreements shape firms’ internationalisation strategies and contribute to economic welfare. His research combines large-scale administrative data and unstructured big data sources, such as LinkedIn and job postings, with quantitative methods for causal inference.