Attila Gyetvai

I am a Research Economist at the Bank of Portugal. I am also affiliated with IZA and CERS-IE. In Fall 2025, I will join the University of Florida as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics. I earned my PhD in Economics from Duke University.

I organize the Structural Microeconomics Conference (Duke, Fall 2025) and the Gator Macro Workshop (UF, Spring 2026).

Working Papers
The Role of Human Capital Specificity in Entrepreneurship
with Eugene Tan
paper (Dec 2024) · policy piece (Apr 2024, with Nasir Hossein Dad and Nic Kozeniauskas) · non-technical summary · box
Identification and Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models with Preference Shocks
with Peter Arcidiacono, Arnaud Maurel, and Katya Jardim
paper (Apr 2023) · NBER WP 30655
revisions requested at The Review of Economic Studies
The Option Value of Occupations
paper (Oct 2024)
Health Shocks, Social Insurance, and Firms
with Anikó Bíró, István Boza, and Dániel Prinz
paper (Nov 2024) · IZA DP 17069

Publications
Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
with Maria Zhu
Labour Economics, 2025, 94:102699
author manuscript · replication package