smart-working increases the productivity of workers and improves their well-being and work-life balance. We also observe …

in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

indices, namely the FTSE100 (UK), DAX30 (Germany), CAC40 (France), IBEX35 (Spain) and FTSE MIB40 (Italy), using fractional …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

generous income tax exemption to young high-skilled expatriates who relocate to Italy. Eligibility requires a college degree as … 27% more likely to move back to Italy post-reform. Additionally, using social security data from the main origin country …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …