Assistant Professor in Economics at NOVA School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

email: joao.sousa@novasbe.pt

Work in progress

• “Taxes and Migration Flows: Preferential Tax Schemes for High-Skill Immigrants” [CEPR discussion paper], with Pedro Teles

• “Schooling and Lifetime Labor Supply” [slides]

• “Modeling Wealth and Income Inequality: Implications for Optimal Taxation”, with Pedro Brinca, Hans. A. Holter, and Catarina Reis

• “Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID): Portugal Country team”, with João B. Duarte, Pedro Brinca, and Pedro Portugal.

Publications

• “On the Design of a European Unemployment Insurance System”, European Economic Review, article 104469, Volume 156, July 2023, with Árpád Ábrahám, Ramon Marimon and Lukas Mayr

• “A Worker’s Backpack as an Alternative to PAYG Pension Systems”, forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association, with Julián Diáz-Saavedra and Ramon Marimon

• “Introducing an Austrian Backpack in Spain”, SERIEs 13, p. 513–556 (2022), with Julián Diáz-Saavedra and Ramon Marimon

• “Existence and uniqueness of equilibrium in Lucas’ Asset Pricing model when utility is unbounded”, Economic Theory Bulletin 5, p. 179–190 (2017), with Fabian Schuetze

  • Related notebook at quantecon.org

Other publications

• “Replacing the Spanish PAYG Pension System for a Worker’s Backpack”, EsadeEcPol Brief #30, September 2022, Julián Diáz-Saavedra and Ramon Marimon

• “Agreeing to an unemployment insurance system for the euro area?”, Ramon Marimon and Thomas Cooley (eds.), The EMU after the Euro Crisis: Lessons and Possibilities - Findings and proposals from the Horizon 2020 ADEMU project, CEPR Press, London, with Árpád Ábrahám, Ramon Marimon and Lukas Mayr