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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey

Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces. Our findings suggest...

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Immigration and the Informal Labor Market

Bosch, Mariano; Farré, Lídia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment, a...

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Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments

Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the case of the minimum...

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Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

Deidda, Manuela; Di Liberto, Adriana; Foddi, Marta; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity …

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of immigrants did not have any effect on innovation....

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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women …

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Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences

Caponi, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically homogeneous wages across regions with different private...

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Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks

Bratti, Massimiliano; Cavalli, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around...

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The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …

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Real Wage Cyclicality in Italy

Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Italy using the European Community Household Panel …. Stayers are the large majority. We find stayers in Northern Italy to have high cyclicality of real wages, higher in fact than … the North of Italy operate much more competitively than in the Centre and South. …

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