Claudia Fontanari is a post-doctoral research fellow in economics at Roma Tre University, where she obtained her PhD in 2017 with a dissertation on the notion and measures of labor productivity. She has been visiting researcher during her PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2017, she has been teaching assistant in the course of Macroeconomics at Roma Tre University. Her main research interests are in the fields of applied macroeconomics and economic policies with a focus on output and employment determination from a demand-led growth perspective, income distribution, and the labor market.


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Wage Stagnation and Productivity: Challenging the Conventional Analysis

Article | Jul 7, 2022

Stagnating real wages may have contributed to the slowdown of US productivity

Permanent Scars: The Effects of Wages on Productivity

Paper Working Paper | | Jul 2022

A persistent regime of low wages may determine very negative long-term consequences on the economy.

Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry

Article | May 19, 2021

Despite fear-mongering about the latest Consumer Price Index, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand

The Updated Okun Method for Estimation of Potential Output with Broad Measures of Labor Underutilization: An Empirical Analysis

Paper Working Paper Series | | May 2021

Despite fear-mongering about the latest Consumer Price Index, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand