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Redistribution Through Public Employment : The Case of Italy

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy. Both the size of public employment and the level of …

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Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions : New Causal Evidence

Coibion, Olivier - 2018

credit, and reduce their employment and capital. However, when policy rates are constrained by the effective lower bound …, demand effects are stronger, leading firms to raise their prices more and no longer reduce their employment …

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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Biroli, Pietro - 2017

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

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Southern (American) Hospitality : Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration

Pérez, Santiago - 2019

I study the selection and economic outcomes of Italians in Argentina and the US, the two largest destinations during the age of mass migration. Prior cross-sectional work finds that Italians had faster assimilation in Argentina, but it is inconclusive on whether this was due to differences in...

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Income and Wealth Volatility : Evidence from Italy and the U.S. in the Past Two Decades

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2019

Income volatility and wealth volatility are central objects of investigation for the literature on income and wealth inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the U.S. over the last two decades. Contrary to our...

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Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation : Evidence from US and Italy

Atella, Vincenzo - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between drug price and drug quality and how it varies across two of the most common regulatory regimes in the pharmaceutical market: minimum efficacy standards (MES) and a mix of minimum efficacy standards and price control mechanisms (MES+PC). Through a...

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The Size and Composition of Wealth Holdings in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands

Kapteyn, Arie - 2003

This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While these countries enjoy roughly the same standard of living, they vary widely in their institutional organization of retirement income provisions. Building on extensions of the life...

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor market in which a larger supply of older workers can...

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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...

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