Published Work and Dissemination

Papers, Reports, and Policy Briefs

• Boeri, T., Cattaneo, E., & Galeone, P. (2026). "The Forgotten NEETs". R&R at Labour Economics. 

• Fantacci, L., & Galeone, P. (2026). "Playing Risk: consolidation and control in the Italian banking system". Contemporary Italian Politics, forthcoming. 

• Galeone, P. (2026). "Formazione e pensione di garanzia: infrastrutture generazionali per la piena e buona occupazione". In L. Pennacchi & G. Fazio (Eds.), Lavoro Democratico (pp. 151–162). Castelvecchi.

• Galeone, P. & Gros, D. (2026). "China’s demographic decline reconsidered: fewer but bigger heads?".  IEP@BU Policy Brief n.54, February 2026. 

• Galeone, P. & Raiti, F. M. (2025). "The EU’s Anti-Poverty Strategy: An evaluation and next steps".  IEP@BU Policy Brief n.50, November 2025. 

• Aprea, M., Galeone, P., & Raitano, M. (2025), “Assegno di inclusione e supporto formazione lavoro: la riforma italiana e il confronto europeo”. In Assegno di Inclusione: un primo bilancio tra dati, esperienze e possibili scenari futuri, edited by Nunzia De Capite, pp. 9-19. Edizioni Palumbi. ISBN: 978-88-7298-592-2.

• Aprea, M., Braga, M., Galeone, P., & Raitano, M. (2025)  "Thriving, not just surviving: Shaping effective minimum income systems in Europe". Caritas Europa CARES Report series, 2025, co-funded by the European Commission.

• Galeone, P. (2025). "Skill Overkill: The EU Needs More Than Just More Training". IEP@BU Policy Brief n.38, March 2025. 

• Galeone, P., & Gros, D. (2024). Invertire la piramide: istruzione e declino demografico. Bancaria monthly, ed. 2024 n. 9, ISSN 0005-4623.

• Galeone, P. & Privinzano, L. (2024). "From Data to Action: an Evidence-Based Approach to Anti-Poverty in the EU". Policy Brief Bocconi, november 2024.

• Galeone, P., & Gros, D. (2024). "Monetary Policy and Regime Shifts in the Inflation Process". Available at SSRN 4700374.

• Galeone, P., & Gros, D. (2023). "Discussion on monetary policy in the face of supply shocks: the role of inflation expectations." European Central Bank, Sintra 2023 Forum proceedings. 

Articles on economic news outlets:

• "La povertà non si combatte solo da Bruxelles", with Sylvie Goulard. La Repubblica, 7 jul 2026. 

• "Oltre il “salario giusto”: non archiviare la contrattazione". Menabò di Etica ed Economia, N. 262/2026.

• "Povertà in Europa: gli Stati si muovano e pensino ai giovani", interview by Stefano Agnoli. Corriere della Sera, 16 jun 2026. 

• "Lavoratori di tutti i contratti unitevi: Superare la frammentazione per affrontare le sfide del lavoro che cambia". Pubblico, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 7 nov 2025

• "Lotta alla povertà: le armi (scariche) dell’Ue e il ruolo dell’Italia". The Post Internazionale (TPI), 24 oct 2025. 

• "Crescono il Pil e pure i poveri: scelta politica, non paradosso". Il Fatto Quotidiano, 20 oct 2025.

• "Agricoltori e ambientalisti contro l’accordo Ue-Mercosur", with J. Christopher Proctor and Romain Svartzman. Rivista ECO, 2/2025.

• "Make America Alone Again: il protezionismo di Trump pesa su fisco e disuguaglianze". Affari e Finanza, La Repubblica, 25 feb 2025.

• "What (Doesn’t) change with the new Migration Pact". Rivista ECO, 4/2024.

• "Regime shifts and the last mile of disinflation", with Daniel Gros. VoxEU, 13 dec 2023. 

• "Interest rates: the ugly dilemma facing Europe’s central banks – and why it’s a mistake to cut too soon", with Daniel Gros. The Conversation, 14 may 2024. 

• "Inflation has affected the UK, US and Europe differently – here’s what this means for interest rates", with Daniel Gros. The Conversation, 29 nov 2023.

• "Fact Checking: Russia e sanzioni", with Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti, Matteo Villa, Francesco Rocchetti. ISPI institute, jan 2019. 

Radio and podcasts:

• On Rai Radio 3, "Revolution", by Stefano Feltri – several episodes, most recently: 

  • "Sciopero: Quanto conta davvero il sindacato". 11 dec 2025.

  • "I poveri dimenticati: Le priorità della legge di Bilancio". 20 oct 2025.

• "La Russia vuole restare in Siria + Come eliminare la povertà in Europa" on "Il Mondo", podcast by Internazionale. 17 oct 2025. 

• "Guida al mondo del lavoro" on Social EuroVoices. 14 feb 2025.

• "#MLPS Più sicurezza, è uno spettacolo" on RadioImmaginaria. Jun 2022.

Ongoing Research

Working Papers

• "No Union for young men: European youth’s euroscepticism and support for the far-right"
  Co-authored with Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University) and Luca Di Casola (IEP@BU)
  Working Abstract: To explain right-wing populism and euroscepticism, most scholars tend to focus on the economic and cultural grievances of older generations. Recently, attention has shifted to young people’s support for the radical right. In this paper, we exploit the recent European Election Study 2024 to show that considerable segmentsof younger Europeans hold stronger Eurosceptic positions, are shifting rightward, and turning out in support of the far right more than older generations. The effect is substantially driven by young men. Some common predictors of pro-EU and liberal positions among adults - university education, high-living standards, and strong political interest – are not associated with pro-EU liberalism among the young. The youth gender gap is associated with polarization in both cultural and economic attitudes, with young men holding more conservative positions than young women. Such attitude polarization partially explains the gender gap in Euroscepticism, but not in far-right support. Our findings suggest that intra-generational cleavages may characterize the future of European democracy..

• "Productivity and Substitutability: a New View on Immigrant Assimilation"
  Co-authored with Joseph-Simon Görlach (Bocconi University and IGIER)
  Working Abstract: Immigrants’ assimilation is often measured by wage growth, confounding two forces: an adaptation of skills that raises immigrants’ productivity, and increasing substitutability with earlier immigrants and natives, putting downward pressure on wages. We decompose wage growth and estimate these components for the U.S. Since immigration and emigration are endogenous to wage growth, we instrument immigrant numbers with economic conditions in countries of origin. Results show that both skill growth and substitutability progress as migrants assimilate, that skill growth exceeds wage growth, and that small positive short-run effects of immigration on natives’ wages dissipate as immigrants become more substitutable.

• "Skilled but Precarious: Wage Effects of Liberalization in Skill-Enhancing Contracts"
  Working Abstract: With the growing focus on skills, dual contracts such as internships and apprenticeships are being promoted as hybrid training-working opportunities for young workers to enter the labor market. Workers, however, also have a preference for job stability and do not value these training contracts equally. In this paper, I focus on the effect of the expansion of more precarious opportunities, such as internships, on the wage of more stable long-term contracts, such as apprenticeships. I develop a simple model whereby two effects can be simultaneously at play when new legislation increases the share of precarious contracts that can be activated: 1) a selection effect in- creases the average wage of permanent contracts since the most productive workers are offered a permanent contract; 2) a dumping effect decreases the average wage since entrant workers are willing to bargain lower wages in exchange for the stability of a permanent contract. Using the latest legislative change to internships in Italy, I am able to exploit interregional variation and estimate the overall effect on apprenticeship wages, revealing that the dumping effect is prevalent.