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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000122609
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2000
capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471212
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471366
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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 … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy. Both the size of public employment and the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471398
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The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Europe : Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets
Favero, Carlo A. - 1999
implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471558
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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471641
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …-specific wage premiums accounts for 40% to 95% of within-country wage declines. The use of active labor market policies predicts a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938696
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It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're At : Hiring Origins, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages
Di Addario, Sabrina; Kline, Patrick; Saggio, Raffaele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a theoretically grounded extension of the two-way fixed effects model of Abowd et al. (1999) that allows firms to differ both in the wages they offer new hires and the wages required to poach their employees. Expected hiring wages are modeled as the sum of a worker fixed effect, a...
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The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News : Evidence from Italian TV Viewership
Gambaro, Marco; Larcinese, Valentino; Puglisi, Riccardo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze minute-by-minute, individual level data on viewership for Italian TV news broadcasts (from AUDITEL™), matched with detailed data on content (from Osservatorio di Pavia). We are interested in the behavior of viewers, and in particular in their decision to switch away from a news...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599310
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The Agglomeration of Urban Amenities : Evidence from Milan Restaurants
Leonardi, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In many cities, restaurants and retail establishments are spatially concentrated. Economists have long recognized the presence of demand externalities that arise from spatial agglomeration as a possible explanation, but empirically identifying this type of spillovers has proven difficult. We...
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