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Virginia Minni

Virginia Minni

Visiting Fellow

Expertise: labour economics, organisational economics, development economics

Email:
v.m.minni@lse.ac.uk
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Altruistic Capital Lab
Department of Economics

Biography

Virginia Minni's current research interests are:

  • Labour Economics,
  • Organisational Economics
  • Development Economics

Latest

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Finding meaning at work

19 June 2026

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni and Luigi Zingales

Helping employees assess their jobs through the lens of purpose increases productivity and narrows gender gaps in career choices... Read more...
Journal article
Leaders in social movements: evidence from unions in Myanmar

01 June 2026

Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, Virginia Minni and Mari Tanaka

Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members' views (consensus building) and actions (mobilization). We study union leaders within Myanmar's burgeoning labor ... Read more...
Journal article
Making the invisible hand visible: managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

23 March 2026

Virginia Minni

Why do managers matter for firm performance? This article provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the firm using the universe of personnel records from a large multinational ... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Meaning at work

14 May 2025

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni and Luigi Zingales

We evaluate a firm's unusual, worker-centered, solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of effort rather than pushing them with performance rewards. We randomize the roll-out of the firm's "D... Read more...
External publications
Gender Gaps across the Spectrum of Development: Local Talent and Firm Productivity

01 June 2024

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni and Victor Quintas-Martinez

We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reve... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Global managers, local workers: wage setting inside a multinational firm

24 January 2024

Virginia Minni

How are wages set within a multinational firm? Combining cross-country data on wages and labor regulations with personnel records of a large multinational firm, I find that wage setting depends on the rank of the employe... Read more...
IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Global Managers, Local Workers: Wage Setting Inside a Multinational Firm

14 December 2023

Virginia Minni (IFS/Chicago Booth)

How are wages set within a multinational firm? Combining cross-country data on wages and labor regulations with personnel records of a large multinational firm, I find that wage setting depends on the rank of the employe... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

30 October 2023

Virginia Minni

Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the firm using the universe of personnel records from a large multinational fi... Read more...
POID Working Papers
Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

09 October 2023

Virginia Minni

Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the firm using the universe of personnel records from a large multinational fi... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Making the invisible hand visible: managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

05 October 2023

Virginia Minni

Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the firm using the universe of personnel records from a large multinational fi... Read more...
STICERD Work in Progress Seminars
What makes a boss? Evidence from the career trajectories of 70,000 employees in a multinational firm

21 February 2020

Virginia Minni (Department of Economics, LSE)

What is the nature and role of bosses in organizations? I analyse panel data at the employee-level from a multinational firm operating in 114 countries for the period 2011-2019. To identify the role of bosses, I ex... Read more...