Gabriel Burdin

Had a great time at @cep-lse.bsky.social presenting our research on the effects of overtime limits in Japan. Always nice to visit London.

🎸London calling!

Looking forward to visiting the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP-LSE) next week to present our paper on the impacts of overtime regulations in Japan at the Wellbeing Seminar Series. Grateful for the invitation.

cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

🏆 #IAFEP2026 will award the Horvat–Vanek Prize to the best paper written by a young scholar

📢 CfP: #IAFEP2026

If you do research on worker participation in firm management & ownership, consider submitting your work to #IAFEP2026 — a group originally initiated by J. Vanek and other great scholars

Hosted by @en.mondragon.coop #MondragonUnibertsitatea

👉 iafep.mondragon.edu/en/home

Excited to share that we’ve received a research award from @anthropic.com Economic Futures Program🎉

This support will enable Julian Tiedtke (Sant'Anna - Pisa) and me to study how worker representation shapes the adoption and impacts of #AI & #robotics in the workplace

More soon!

Research on worker cooperatives, by our Prof. @gabrielburdin.bsky.social @deps-siena.bsky.social (with Fabio Landini), will be presented this week at a workshop organized by CISC - Legacoop - Università di Parma

www.legacoopemiliaovest.it/home/la-coop...

#TerzaMissione

🚨 TODAY🚨

New @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!

Alessandro Tavoni @atavoni.bsky.social (@unibo.it)

"Individual vs Collective Climate Action: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey Experiment in Italy"

🗓️⏲️Jan 28, 3 pm Goodwin Room (DEPS, 2nd floor)

If worker co-operatives work, why aren’t there more of them? - LSE Business Review Firms with majority workforce control are generally successful but increasingly rare. Why don’t more employees own and control the companies they work for?

If worker co-operatives work, why aren’t there more of them?

@gabrielburdin.bsky.social @deps-siena.bsky.social and Fabio Landini (University of Parma) for @lsebr.bsky.social

📢 If worker co-operatives work, why aren’t there more of them?

Drawing on new research with Fabio Landini, we discuss how beliefs shape demand for worker ownership. Check it out 👇

🚨 TOMORROW🚨

Excited to kick off a new semester of the @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!

@pietrodallara.bsky.social (University of Naples “Federico II”)

"Screening in digital monopolies"

🗓️⏲️Jan 21, 3 pm Goodwin Room (DEPS, 2nd floor)

murder of Abel, medieval miniature, blue background. Abel falling on the green grass while being hit with a heavy hummer by his brother (not visible in the picture)

Why starting 2026 with an #homicide? ⬇️ Have a read at our latest blog @artandinequality.bsky.social to find out about a mysterious #murder, an #inventory and forthcoming #projects and #publications for #ArtandInequality
@glasgow.ac.uk #medievalsky

➡️ link: www.artandinequality.com/homicide-wit...

📢A new international call for our Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program is now open!

Next week, we’ll announce our first Distinguished Visitor, who will visit @DepsUSiena next spring.

You can start guessing… it’s a leading economist with major contributions to labor economics!

🚨 New paper accepted in IJIO!

We study +30k subsidy initiatives:

• Subsidies boost entry of ~5.5% less productive firms
• Unconditional tax breaks & loans drive the negative effects
• Intl., SME-focused & green/automation subsidies can improve entrant quality

👉 tinyurl.com/2b3kzbdm

More soon!

📢THIS WEEK

@deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar!

@robertoiacono.org (NTNU)

"Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform"

🗓️⏲️ Nov 5, 15:00, Goodwin Room #Siena

Wrapping up a great visit to CREM @rennesuniv.bsky.social — PhD committee, seminar, and now a day off in stunning Saint-Malo.

Many thanks to colleagues for the invitation and insightful exchanges.

It is finally online the SI of the EER that we guest-edited together with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social, @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social, and Jakob Madsen. The full list of papers is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Day! 📊 A great showcase of faculty work.

#Economics #Statistics #Siena #ResearchDay

Paper: Beliefs and Demand for Employee Ownership Among Young Adults (with Fabio Landini)

👉https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5362985

Policy takeaway:

💡 Low-cost informational interventions can boost societal support for employee ownership.

But belief updating alone may not trigger career choices → deeper barriers remain.

Methodological note:

👉Demand effects: shift in policy preferences persists even in an obfuscated follow-up survey
👉(Non-preregistered) analysis of open-text responses with human coders + ChatGPT adjudication of disputes

Implications:

👉Worker ownership has the potential to improve firm and worker outcomes

👉Uptake is low not only due to wealth constraints, risk aversion or decision costs, as emphasized by traditional explanations, but also due to biased priors and negative narratives.

We also asked: “What’s the first word you think of when you hear co-op?”

Control: “exploitation,” “low pay,” “instability.”
Treatment: “solidarity,” “cooperation,” “jobs.”

Information reduced negative first-order concerns about cooperatives and increased positive ones.

We exposed half the sample to expert-based judgments.

Result:

✅ Beliefs shifted (more optimistic)
✅ Policy support ↑ (“govt should support the creation of co-ops”)
❌ BUT career intentions did not change

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Left-leaning and more educated respondents hold more optimistic prior beliefs about cooperatives

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We also asked a sample of international experts to evaluate existing evidence across similar performance dimensions.

🔍 Priors: Young adults were much more pessimistic than international experts about the relative performance of worker cooperatives.

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We ran a preregistered experiment guided by a detailed pre-analysis plan involving 2,000 young adults in Italy.

We asked: what do people believe about worker co-ops vs conventional firms (firm productivity, survival, inequality, employment stability)?

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🚨 New paper update!

Why are employee-owned firms with majority workforce control (e.g., worker cooperatives) so rare, despite evidence showing they perform at least as well as investor-owned firms in many contexts?

We argue: beliefs play a key role.

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Just a few days left to apply for this additional fully funded PhD position. Happy to provide additional guidance

#econsky

📢 Our new wp "Beliefs and Demand for Employee Ownership Among Young Adults" (with Fabio Landini) is out!

Still a working draft - comments are welcome!

Link 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📢5 additional fully funded positions available in the PhD Programme in Economics of the Tuscan Universities (Florence, Pisa & Siena)!

One tied to research on worker voice, collective bargaining, wages & tech change.

Apply by July 30, 2025 👉
phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-pr...

#econsky