Activity and employment rates for immigrant women in many industrialized countries display a great variability across … employment rates for certain national groups are not associated with high reservation wages. This implies that low participation …

the same firm, employment and investments grow significantly less in non-HQ plants compared to HQ plants. We discuss …

utilization of credit, and reduce their employment. 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 …

This paper measures the impact of wage zones – minimum wage differentials at the province level – on Italy's local … covered under wage zones there was an increase in employment when one crossed the border from a high-wage province into a low …

We investigate the consequences of public employment on local economies. We start by presenting a spatial …-equilibrium framework, to highlight that the housing market is an important channel through which a variation in public employment affects … private employment. We then provide empirical evidence from Italian municipalities, focusing on the strong contraction in the …

labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …

discusses some normative aspects implicit in the current definition of the employment rate, which is a fundamental policy target … approximated by the total annual hours of work relative to a benchmark value. Third, it derives household-level employment indices …

The paper assesses the extent to which mortgage rates in Italy are priced according to credit risk as proxied by the …