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Remote Work, Foreign Residents, and the Future of Global Cities
Guerreiro, João; Rebelo, Sérgio; Teles, Pedro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
As remote work opportunities expand, more people are seeking residence in foreign destinations. The resulting surge in foreign residents generates capital gains for property owners but negatively impacts renters and creates potentially important production, congestion, and amenities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322789
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Income and Wealth Volatility : Evidence from Italy and the U.S. in the Past Two Decades
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2019
inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480471
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Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics
Alesina, Alberto - 2016
rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of 'electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower … presence of organized crime, under democratic and non-democratic regimes, proportional and majoritarian elections, and between … contested and non-contested districts. We provide additional evidence on the influence of organized crime on politics using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456581
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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence
Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the equilibrium effect of higher wages in the presence of criminal pressure groups, who use both bribes and violence? By means of a regression discontinuity design, we show that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337819
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462312
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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography
Kim, Sukkoo - 2003
between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469105
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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007
Bénétrix, Agustín S. - 2012
peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460439
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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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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008
-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464445
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Social Capital as Good Culture
Guiso, Luigi - 2007
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464934