We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and … unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …

We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual … microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage …

feminist society, one of a random equilibrium and a last one that estimates the degree of social gender bias towards men. The …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce … might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of … counterfactual comparisons of densities. The proposed methodology is used to investigate the gender wage gap in Italy. It is found …

, on global efficiency and cross-country inequality in football. I built a micro-founded model endogenizing migration … decisions, inequality and training; I estimated its structural parameters; and I used numerical simulations to compare actual … by 20% (ii) increased cross-leagues inequality in performance by 25% in terms of output, and (iii) decreased inequality …