Joan Llull
Professor, IAE-CSIC
Affiliated Professor, BSE
Welcome to my website. I am a Research Professor at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. I am also an External Fellow at RFBerlin and an IZA@LISER Research Fellow. I graduated from CEMFI in 2011.
I am the Data Editor of the Econometric Society for its journals Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics, and Editorial Board Member of the Review of Economic Studies. I have also served as Data Editor at Economic Journal and Econometrics Journal, as Associate Editor at SERIEs—The Journal of the Spanish Economic Association and as Guest Editor at Labour Economics, the Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists.
My research interests are in Labor Economics and Structural Microeconometrics. My current research focuses on immigration, internal migration, occupational mobility, inequality, human capital accumulation, technological progress, labor market frictions, family economics, and, recently, development. I initiated and have continuously (co-)organized the Structural Microeconometrics and Migration sessions at the Summer Forum of the BSE.
In 2018 I was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for my project "Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation (DYMOLAMO)". This project, which ran until January 2025, allowed me to provide a deeper understanding of the interrelations between labor mobility (mostly geographical, but also occupational) and human capital accumulation. The project focuses on internal and international migration, providing empirical analyses using data for the United States and Spain.
In 2023 I was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for my project "Optimal Immigration Policy (OPIMPOL)". This project, which is expected to run until 2030, aims to provide a unified framework to quantify the optimal immigration policies. These policies, broadly defined, are are aimed at maximizing the surplus from immigration, compensate potential losers from it, internalize the consequences of policies for developing countries, and foster integration of immigrants in the labor market. While the empirical analyses are conducted using data for the United States, the framework and the conclusions are expected to be usable in other contexts.
I am the Scientific Director of the Economics of Public Policy Master at the Barcelona School of Economics. I am also the director of BSE's Microeconometrics executive education, and I teach and direct the BSE Microeconometrics Winter School. I have taught different graduate courses on a broad set of topics in Microeconometrics (see my teaching here). I also teach courses on Migration and Structural Microeconometrics at the Labor Economics and Microeconometrics BSE Summer Schools.
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