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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea - 1999

workers across regions; differences in local attributes; different hiring policies and discrimination against southern workers …

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Coviello, Decio - 2010

We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...

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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

Garibaldi, Pietro - 2007

University in Italy, this paper shows that an increase of 1,000 euro in the continuation tuition reduces the probability of late …

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea - 2006

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...

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Wage Differentials in Italy : Market Forces, Institutions, and Inflation

Erikson, Christopher L. - 1994

During the 1970s, Italy experienced an extreme compression of wage differentials, similar to the better-known situation … (the loss of support for unions and their egalitarian pay policies). While we cannot definitively distinguish among the … relative influences of institutions, market forces, technology and politics on the evolution of earnings inequality in Italy …

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