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Leaving Home and Housing Prices : The Experience of Italian Youth Emancipation
Modena, Francesca - 2011
This paper provides an explanation for the postponement of youth emancipation in the Italian context mainly characterized by a sharp increase in both house and rent prices together with stagnant disposable income over the past decade. We first assemble a unique database related to the housing...
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Leaving Your Mamma : Why so Late in Italy?
Di Stefano, Enrica - 2017
In Italy, young adults tend to postpone their transition to adulthood and live with their parents until very late …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944024
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Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2016
true even after we control for labour and housing market conditions and for a comprehensive list of individual and family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999059
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My Parents Taught Me. Evidence on the Family Transmission of Values
Albanese, Giuseppe - 2014
The paper uses questions included in the 2010 wave of the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth to … investigate the role of family transmission of values. It presents three main empirical findings. First, the paper shows that a … environment before they are passed on further. This evidence is consistent with the idea that family transmission is a channel for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051364
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The Rise of Risk-Based Pricing of Mortgage Interest Rates in Italy
Magri, Silvia - 2011
The paper assesses the extent to which mortgage rates in Italy are priced according to credit risk as proxied by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128110
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Modelling Italian Potential Output and the Output Gap
Bassanetti, Antonio - 2011
The aim of the paper is to estimate a reliable quarterly time-series of potential output for the Italian economy, exploiting four alternative approaches: a Bayesian unobserved component method, a univariate time-varying autoregressive model, a production function approach and a structural VAR....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128341
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Does Investing Abroad Reduce Domestic Activity? Evidence From Italian Manufacturing Firms
Bronzini, Raffaello - 2011
complements. We take advantage of a unique firm-level panel data set from the Bank of Italy Survey of Industrial and Service Firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128478
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The Effect of Age on Portfolio Choices : Evidence Form an Italian Pension Fund
Cappelletti, Giuseppe - 2011
Optimal Portfolio Theory prescribes that investors reduce their exposure to financial market risk as they get near to retirement. To assess the effect of ageing on portfolio choices, we study the case of an Italian defined contribution pension fund during the period 2002-08. We find that on...
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Labor Market Pooling : Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2011
The paper provides an empirical investigation of the advantages accruing to workers in industrial clusters. Using a unique data set based on the Cluster Mapping Project of the Italian National Statistical Institute, we examine whether industry agglomeration leads to wage and labor mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131333
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2011
We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates' work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that doubling the population density of the province of work reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by 2-3 percentage points. This...
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