Miguel Á. Malo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He has been a visiting scholar at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK), European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (University of Essex, UK), National Bureau for Economic Research (USA) and the International Labour Organization (Switzerland). His main research interests are employment policies, labour market segmentation, employment protection legislation and employment of people with disabilities. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Spanish expert about employment of people with disabilities in the corresponding international network created by the European Commission. In 2007, he provided expert advice to the Spanish Ministry of Employment to design a new strategy to promote the employment for people with disabilities. During 2013, he has been on leave working as a Senior Economist at the International Labour Organization.Dario Sciulli (Ph.D. Tor Vergata University, Rome 2006) is assistant professor of economic policy at the Department of Economic Studies, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He has held visiting positions at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), University of York (UK) and VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has held post-doc positions at the University of the Azores (Portugal) and University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). His research interests include labour economics, child development and later outcomes, economics of disability and policy evaluation. He is a member of the executive committee of AIEL (the Italian Association of Labour Economists).
