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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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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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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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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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This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …
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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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Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct …
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We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to 2005, we find that the marginal effect of one additional week of formal training on monthly earnings...
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observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational …
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the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …
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