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Home or away? Gender differences in the effects of an expansion of tertiary education supply

Rizzica, Lucia - Banca d'Italia - 2013

education supply on enrolment and the mobility decisions of high school graduates. Major gender differences emerge: the increase …

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Low skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools

Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Banca d'Italia - 2009

A political-economic model is provided to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the receiving country's education system, in terms of sources of school funding, expenditure per pupil, and type of parents who are more likely to send children to privately funded schools. The education...

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Disuguaglianza dei redditi individuali e ruolo della famiglia in Italia

D'Alessio, Giovanni; Signorini, Luigi Federico - Banca d'Italia - 2000

The paper compares income inequality of households and individuals. Obviously, the latter is greater than the former; in fact households operate a broad redistribution of resources both between earners and non earners (children, unemployed, housewives), and between earners of unequal income....

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Women and the Italian economy

Bianco, Magda; Lotti, Francesca; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2013

Gender gaps in the labour market, in boardrooms and in wages are still significant in Italy. This paper, which … causes, presents some evidence regarding wage differentials, differences in the gender composition of boards and … requirements. Some policies to narrow gender gaps are discussed: national and regional legislation; subsidies for female …

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Dropping the books and working off the books

Cappariello, Rita; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2009

The paper empirically tests the relationship between underground labour and schooling achievement for Italy; a country ranking badly in both respects when compared to other high-income economies; with a marked duality between North and South. In order to identify underground workers; we exploit...

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Does gender matter for public spending? Empirical evidence from Italian municipalities

Rigon, Massimiliano; Tanzi, Giulia Martina - Banca d'Italia - 2012

Municipal Councils. Despite the existence of gender-specific preferences in society, we find no clear evidence that the amount … of resources distributed among different spending categories is significantly affected by politiciansï¿½ gender. The … Italian law that reserved a gender quota in party lists for municipal elections, thus causing an exogenous increase in the …

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Italian civil justice: regional disparities

Carmignani, Amanda; Giacomelli, Silvia - Banca d'Italia - 2009

The functioning of the Italian civil justice system is characterized by deep regional disparities: the length of legal proceedings is on average significantly higher in the South than in the rest of Italy. Using mainly a descriptive approach, this paper documents these differences and...

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Small claims litigation in Italy

Fantini, Paolo; Giacomelli, Silvia; Palumbo, Giuliana; … - Banca d'Italia - 2011

Despite accounting for a significant fraction of total litigation in Italy, small claims litigation has so far received little attention. Using a Ministry of Justice database that contains information disaggregated by subject matter, the paper provides a thorough description of the time trend...

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The effect of organized crime on public funds

Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - Banca d'Italia - 2013

Organized crime is widely regarded as damaging to the economy, to say nothing of peopleï¿½s lives. Yet little is known about the mechanism at work. This paper helps fill the gap by analyzing the impact of organized crime on the allocation of public subsidies to businesses. We assemble an...

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The economic costs of organized crime: evidence from southern Italy

Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012

I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other...

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