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Modelling Private Wealth Accumulation and Spend-down in the Italian Microsimulation Model CAPP_DYN: A Life-Cycle Approach
Mazzaferro, Carlo; Morciano, Marcello; Pisano, Elena; … - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
inequality in the next decades which, differently from the recent past, will also affect the group of elderly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568092
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Race v. Suffrage The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319018
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Race v. Suffrage. The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283205
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671740
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher proportion of slaves are currently not poorer, but more … unequal. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test … three alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802462
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Estimation and Simulation of Earnings in IT-SILC
Ciani, Emanuele; Morciano, Marcello - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
This paper describes income distribution among workers in Italy using both the cross-sectional and panel component of IT-SILC. We highlight advantages and drawbacks of different econometric approaches, comparing standard OLS estimates with those obtained from Random Effects and Poisson Maximum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319017
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The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency
Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and ine¢ ciency-averse agents responding to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246553
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Estimation and Simulation of Earnings in IT-SILC
Ciani, Emanuele; Morciano, Marcello - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
This paper describes income distribution among workers in Italy using both the cross-sectional and panel component of IT-SILC. We highlight advantages and drawbacks of different econometric approaches, comparing standard OLS estimates with those obtained from Random Effects and Poisson Maximum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150873
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Inequality and higher education in Italy The distributive impact of fees and subsidies to academics
Pacifico, Daniele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2009
In this paper we evaluate in monetary terms the benefits from attending a post-secondary degree in an Italian university. We also propose a microsimulation model that takes into account the spatial distribution of scholarships, fees and other monetary and in-kind services related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492919
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Demographic forecasts, migration and transition theory: a labor market perspective
Bruni, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2009
The paper proposes a new logical system to build demographic scenarios based on a model that explain migration infl ows as a function of the manpower needs that countries with below replacement fertility are experiencing, as a result both of the decline in Working Age Population and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492920