Undergraduate Studies

Bocconi University,
Milan. B.A in Economics (July 1999), magna cum laude

Graduate Studies

University College London, September 2000 – September 2001, Master of Science in Economics.

Bocconi University, Milan, September 2001 - April 2006, PhD in Economics
Thesis Title: “Essays in Applied Labour Economics” (Main Advisor: Prof. Tito Boeri)

Teaching and Research Fields

Primary fields: Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics

Secondary fields: Microeconometrics, Public Economics

Teaching Experience

Feb. – July 2007
Econometrics II, Macroeconomics (undergraduate) University of Alicante, lecturer.

Sept. 2002 – March 2004

Personnel Economics, Bocconi University, teaching fellow for Professor Pietro Garibaldi

Sept. 2002 – March 2004

Macroeconomics, Bocconi University, tutor.

Research Experience and Previous Employment

Sept. 2006 – Sept. 2007
University of Alicante, Department of Economics
Visiting Professor (Profesor Visitante)

Sept. 2005 – April 2006
London School of Economics
Visiting Researcher at CASE (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion)

Dec. 2003 – Sept. 2006
(On leave from Sept. 2005 to April 2006)
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna (affiliated to the United Nations). Research Fellow in the “Incomes, Poverty and Social Policy Modeling” Unit, involved in the following projects: AIM-AP (Accurate Income Measurement for the Assessment of Public Policies, 2006-2008), funded by the European Commission (FP6) and coordinated by Holly Sutherland (ISER, University of Essex), Panos Tsakloglu and Manos Matsaganis (University of Athens), the project aims at investigating the distributional effects of non-cash incomes, the implication of errors in targeting social benefits, tax evasion and measurement error in income data, and the effects of direct and indirect taxes on redistribution; I-CUE (Improving the capacity and the usability of the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, 2005-2007), funded by: European Commission (FP6) and coordinated by: Holly Sutherland (ISER, University of Essex), the project objective is to include in the current existing European tax/benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD prototype models from the New Member States; Observatory on the Social Situation in the European Union (2005-2007), funded by the European Commission, the project aims at monitoring and reporting on trends in income distribution and social inclusion in the 25 Member States; MICRESA (Micro-level analysis of the European Social Agenda, 2001 – 2004) funded by the European Commission (FP5) and coordinated by Holly Sutherland (ISER, University of Essex), the project explored the impacts of national social and fiscal policies on poverty reduction using the microsimulation model EUROMOD.

July – Sept. 2001:
OECD, Paris, Intern at the Economics Department, project on the determinants of self-employment in the OECD Countries.

Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2000:
Bocconi University, Milan, researcher on the project “Study on the impact of the EU enlargement on employment in the member states” funded by the EU Commission.

Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2000:
Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Milan, researcher on European labour markets and welfare states.

Sept. - Dec. 1998
CERGE-EI, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic): Visiting researcher.

Professional Activities
Seminars: 2007: Second Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), DIW Berlin, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; Universidad de Girona; Universidad Rovira y Virgili; Universidad Jaume I Castellon; 2006: XXXI Simposio del Analisis Economico, University of Oviedo; “V Brucchi Luchino” Labour Economics Workshop, University of Padova; University of Alicante; EALE European Association of Labour Economists, CERGE-EI, Prague; Observatory on the Social Situation in the EU, European Commission, DG Employment, Brussels; IARIW International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, University of Joensuu; WPEG Pension and Labour Economics Conference, University of Kent, ESPE (European Society for Population Economics), University of Verona; International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, Università “Guido Carli”, Rome; Institute of Education, University of London; Austrian Economic Association, Vienna University; European Community Household Panel Users Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2005: CASE-LSE Work in Progress Seminar, London; Italian Association of Labour Economists (AIEL), Università “La Sapienza”; First Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Mallorca; European Community Household Panel Users Conference, University of Essex; Bocconi-NYU PhD in Economics Workshop, La Pietra; Austrian Economic Association, University of Innsbruck; Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice; 2004: UNECE Workshop “Sustainable Ageing Societies”, Madrid, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Conference organization:
IARIW (International Association for Research in Income and Wealth) 2008 conference, session “Issues in   Health Care Measurement”, joint with Thesia Garner (US Bureau of Labour Statistics).
“L’Università e il mercato del lavoro in Italia”, Libera Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, October 2004 (joint with Daniela Feliziani).

Workshops:
August 2006: University of Essex, Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, Multi-country tax-benefit microsimulation using EUROMOD.
August 2005: University of Essex, Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, Duration Models.
July – August 2005: Luxembourg Income Study, LIS Introductory Workshop and Research Visit.
April 2004: IZA Summer School in Labour Economics, Buch (Ammersee, Germany).
June - July 2003: University of Copenhagen, PhD workshop in “Inequality and Development”.
July 2003: European Science Foundation, Summer School in Personnel Economics, Steyr (Austria).

Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

August 2006
IARIW travel grant

July – August 2005
Sept. 2001 – Sept. 2004
Luxembourg Income Study grant for LIS workshop and research visit
Bocconi University, PhD Scholarship.

June 2003
Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2001
Marie Curie Fellowship at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (declined)
Bocconi University Scholarship for postgraduate studies abroad

Current Research Papers
Does it pay to study far from home? Explaining the returns to geographic mobility of Italian college graduates, mimeo.

Welfare participation among immigrants and natives: evidence from the Swedish Income Panel, mimeo.
(joint with A. Zaidi, OECD).

Poverty entry and exit during old-age: comparative evidence form the European Community Household Panel, mimeo.

Subject degree choice and the labour market outcomes of Italian college graduates, mimeo.

Social protection and poverty in Europe: assessing the effectiveness of anti-poverty measures, mimeo.
(joint with C. O’Donoghue, Teagasc and NUI Galway, and S. Toso, University of Bologna).

Child poverty in Europe: methodological and policy issues, mimeo.
(joint with C. O’Donoghue, Teagasc and NUI Galway, and S. Toso, University of Bologna).

The redistributive impact of public education expenditure in Italy, mimeo.

Working Papers
Zaidi, A., Makovec, M. and Fuchs, M. (2006) Transition from work to retirement in EU Countries, CASE-LSE Discussion Paper 112, October.

Garibaldi, P., Makovec, M., and Stoyanova, G. (2001), From Transition to Accession: the Bulgarian Labour Market over the ‘90s, World Bank Technical Paper 494.
Book Chapters
Policies against long-term unemployment in an enlarged Europe, in Di Domenico, G. and Spattini, S. (eds.) New Approaches to long-term unemployment. What role for Public Employment Services and what market for private stakeholders? (forthcoming, Kluwer Academic Press).

International comparative indicators of material well-being in an age-specific optique, in Marin. B and Zaidi, A. eds (2007), Mainstreming Ageing: Indicators to Monitor Sustainable Policies, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK (joint with M. Fuchs).

Poverty of older people in EU-25, in Marin. B and Zaidi, A. eds (2007), Mainstreming Ageing: Indicators to Monitor Sustainable Policies, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK (joint with A. Zaidi et al.).

Transition from work to retirement in EU Countries, in Marin. B and Zaidi, A. eds (2007), Mainstreming Ageing: Indicators to Monitor Sustainable Policies, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK (joint with A. Zaidi and M. Fuchs).

Policy Papers and Reports
, (2006) Report to the European Commission, (joint with A. Zaidi et al.).

Makovec, M. (2006), Dynamics of poverty in EU 15 (1994-2001), chapter 2, Observatory on the Social Situation of the European Union, Report to the European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs.

Lelkes, O. and Makovec, (2005), Labour Market and Income distribution in 25 EU Member States, chapter 3, Observatory on the Social Situation of the European Union, Report to the European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs.

Makovec, M. and Nikolova, A. (2004), Labour market and disability in Bulgaria, mimeo, The World Bank.

Boeri, T., and Bruecker, H., eds. (2000), The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Employment and Wages in the EU Member States, Report for the European Commission, DG V, Part B (contributing author).

Language skills
Italian: mother tongue; English: fluent; Spanish: fluent; French: good; basics of German and Russian.

Newspaper articles in Italian
“Corriere della Sera”: Marco Polo e il milione di posti di lavoro (with Giacomo De Giorgi, 27/9/1999); Flessibili o precari? (with Giacomo De Giorgi, 25/10/1999); Le pensioni pubbliche: tolgono ai ricchi per dare ai poveri... o viceversa? (with Pietro Garibaldi, 21/2/2000); Quanto conta la qualità del lavoro (20/3/2000); Disuguaglianza, sindacato e lavoro temporaneo (with Pietro Garibaldi, 8/5/2000); Chi assume le donne? (with Pietro Garibaldi,19/6/2000); Immigrazione e lavoro a tempo determinato (with Pietro Garibaldi, 11/9/2000).