Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION Andrea Albanese 1000 Bruxelles (Belgium) andrea.albanese@ugent.be http://www.feb.ugent.be/SocEco/ENG/homepage.asp?number=000120881093 Skype a.albanese86 Sex Male | Date of birth 01/04/1986 | Nationality Italian EDUCATION AND TRAINING 09/2011–Present PhD candidate in Economics ISCED 6 DEFAP - Graduate School (University of Milan-Bicocca and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Italy) JOINT WITH University of Ghent (Social Economics department), Milan & Ghent. Microeconometrics, Counterfactual Impact Evaluation, Labour Economics 10/2013–Present Researches in progress - PhD thesis Albanese Andrea, Cockx Bart,"The effects of employers' wage subsidies on the employment of older workers a natural experiment", in the project "Age, women and employment: an evaluation" (WOLDEMP - BELSPO). Albanese Andrea, Cappellari Lorenzo,"Reforming the Italian apprenticeship and the impact on youth employment". Cockx Bart, Van Belle Eva, Albanese Andrea "Waiting Longer Before Claiming Unemployment Benefits. Does it Raise Job Finding?". Cockx Bart, Thuy Yannick, Smith Catherine, Albanese Andrea. "Part-Time Career Breaks at the End of the Career. Do They Lengthen the Time Spent in Employment?", in the project "Age, women and employment: an evaluation" (WOLDEMP - BELSPO). 10/2008–03/2011 M.Sc. Economic Sciences, 110/110 cum laude ISCED 5 Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy), Lund University (Sweden - Erasmus student from 09/2009 to 06/2010) University of Copenhagen (Denmark - Guest student from 10/2010 to 03/2011). Master's thesis: “The impact of European Structural Funds on SMEs - Conditional Difference-InDifferences”, A microeconometric evaluation by PS-Matching and DiD estimator. Supervisors: Martin Dahl and Emilio Colombo. Main subjects: Econometrics, International Trade and Finance, Public Finance, Development Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Quantitative Analysis. 09/2005–11/2008 B.Sc. Economics and Business, 110/110 cum laude ISCED 5 Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Bachelor's thesis: “The EU Budget Policy”, Supervisor: Luca Stanca (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Main subjects: Economics, Quantitative analysis, International Economics, Social Sciences, Business, Law. WORK EXPERIENCE 04/2011–07/2011 Blue book Trainee at the European Commission Secretariat of the Economic and Financial Committee & Economic Policy Committee (EFC and EPC), DG ECFIN, European Commission. Avenue de Beaulieu, 24, 1160 Oudergem (Brussels) (Belgium) Participation in meetings at different levels and collaboration in organisational, administrative, 18/6/14 © European Union, 2002-2014 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 1 / 2 Curriculum Vitae Andrea Albanese information, documentation and logistical tasks. Business or sector European Institution. PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Italian Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING English SPEAKING Listening Reading C2 C2 WRITING Spoken interaction Spoken production C1 C1 C2 Toefl Romanian French B1 B1 A2 A2 A1 A2 A2 A1 A1 A1 Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Communication skills Transferable skills courses attended at Ghent University: Communication Skills(Advanced Academic English Skills Conference) and Leadership & Personal efficiency (Communication Skills - Basic and Conflict Handling). International propensity: ten months of Erasmus in Sweden, five months of Guest student in Denmark and four months of traineeship at the European Commission in Belgium. Computer skills Other skills Driving licence Stata, Matlab, Microsoft Office (2003-2010), Visual Basic, C++, SQL. One year of voluntary after-school service for deprived children (CAG Italian association). Blood donor since 2006 (AVIS). Photography. Ten years in AGESCI scout association. B ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Merit-Based Scholarships Scholarship for Joint PhD (Flemish Government Research Funds - BOF): Top-up funding year 2013/2014; Full Scholarship: 2014/2015. Scholarship for doctoral studies (DEFAP: 2011-2014), Italian Ministry of Research, 2011. Scholarship MSc studies abroad 1st university ranked ("progetto extra" - Fondazione Cariplo Scholarship in collaboration with Assolombarda - Lombardy Entrepreneurs association). Test Results GRE score 30/06/2011:Quantitative reasoning 800/800 (94th percentile); Verbal reasoning 600/800 (86th percentile); Analitycal Writing 4/6 (45th percentile). TOEFL Score 10/06/2011:Total score 107/120; Reading 30/30; Listening 27/30; Speaking 23/30; Writing 27/30. Summer Schools Barcelona Graduate School (GSE) in Microeconometrics: Panel Data Linear Analysis (professor Badi Baltagi) and Dynamic and Non-linear Panel Data Models (professor Sergi Jiménez-Martín). 01/07/2013-12/07/2013. DEFAP/LASER Summer school in Applied Microeconometrics: Lecturer: Petra Elisabeth Todd , Marteen Lindeboom. 09/06/2014-13/06/2014. 18/6/14 © European Union, 2002-2014 | http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Page 2 / 2