Cristiano Perugini is Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Italy.
His main research interests include functional and personal income distribution, wage inequality, labour market institutional settings and performance, and gender disparities.
He has been visiting fellow at Bofit, Bank of Finland (2018); Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (2017, 2018, 2022); FREN, Belgrade, (2016); Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2015); IOS, Regensburg (2014 and 2012); and University of Brighton (2013 and 2011).
He has published in Labour Economics, World Development, The Cambridge Journal of Economics, The Review of Income and Wealth, Economic Modelling, Economics of Transition, Economic Systems, International Labour Review, among others.

Cristiano Perugini joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2019.