Mariano Mamertino is an Economist at Indeed. Mariano’s analysis contributes to reports, blogs, and research bulletins from the Indeed Hiring Lab, a global research institute committed to advancing the knowledge of job seekers and talent acquisition professionals worldwide. He studies Indeed data on how people are searching for jobs to better understand the state of the global labor market. Mariano holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Economics from Bocconi University. In the past, he has worked as a research fellow at Central European University in Budapest, and as a junior research officer at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. He is among the authors of the ILO’s flagship report “World of Work 2014: Developing With Jobs” and he has collaborated on several institutional and academic publications. His main research interests are skills, job matching, job search/hiring practices and labour markets.
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