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I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Brighton, School of Business and Law.
My research interests relate to Applied Microeconomics with focus on Labour, Education, Migration, Subjective wellbeing and Development.
I have received my PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Before joining the University of Brighton I have worked at King's College London, Business School; the Centre of Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford; the National Institute of Economic and Social Research; the London School of Economics, Department of Management, and at the University of Sussex, Department of Economics.
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Latest Publication: "The Union Wage Mark-up for Immigrants in the United States"(with Laszlo Goerke, IAAEU, University of Trier, IZA, Cesifo). Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society (ABS 4), 7 January 2026.
Fellow of the Advance Higher Education.
Member of RES and EALE
External Examiner for Coventry University, UK
My contact details:
School of Business and Law
University of Brighton
Elm House, Lewes Road
Brighton, UK
email: c.rienzo@brighton.ac.uk Here is my CV
Reviewer for a number of academic journals including: Applied Economics; British Journal of Industrial Relations; Contemporary Economic Policy; Economics Bulletin; International Migration; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of International Development; Journal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Health Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Labour Economics; Migration Studies; Nature Human Behaviour; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; PlusOne; Population, Space and Place; Population Review; Oxford Economic Papers; Regional Studies; Review of Development Economics; Social Science & Medicine; Spatial Economic Analysis; Socio-Economic Review; World Development.