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workers across regions; differences in local attributes; different hiring policies and discrimination against southern workers …
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During the 1970s, Italy experienced an extreme compression of wage differentials, similar to the better-known situation … (the loss of support for unions and their egalitarian pay policies). While we cannot definitively distinguish among the … relative influences of institutions, market forces, technology and politics on the evolution of earnings inequality in Italy …
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Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …
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University in Italy, this paper shows that an increase of 1,000 euro in the continuation tuition reduces the probability of late …
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In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
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We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
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