Joan Llull awarded an ERC Starting Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) awarded a Starting Grant to Joan Llull, associate professor at the UAB Department of Economics and Economic History and research fellow at MOVE (Markets, Organizations, and Votes in Economics). The almost 1.5M euros grant will go towards funding the project DYMOLAMO, Dynamic Modelling of Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation", which will analyse the consequences of geographic mobility (both internal migration of workers within a same state and immigration workers) due to the accumulation of human capital of moving workers, and of those living in both the countries of origin and destination. The project will propose the design of more efficient and more inclusive migratory policies, which will allow a rapid integration of immigrants in the receiving country. 

Joan Llull combines his work as professor at the UAB and researcher at MOVE with lectures at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and as an external fellow of the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at the University College London. His main field of research is the labour economy and microeconometry, and more specifically, he specialises in issures related to immigration and the formation of human capital.

He earned his PhD in 2011 at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid and conducted research stays at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Tokyo, as well as at the Bank of Spain and the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Saint Louis. His work has been published in some of the top economic journals, and he has been head researcher of several research projects.