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In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...
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-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over 3,000, mostly privately-held, non-financial firms to their bank(s …We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We … exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010 …
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We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined …
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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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