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The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics : Evidence from the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2021
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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Gender Unemployment Catching-Up : Empirical Evidence from Italian Regions
Belloc, Marianna - 2011
We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is occurring in most of the regions but at different pace....
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122251
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015
Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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The Development of Cities in Italy 1300 - 1861
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2007
city sizes and the city-size distribution as a whole to highlight the main characteristics of Italy's urban system such as … the differences between northern and southern Italy. Our second, and main, contribution is that our data allow for panel … estimation where city-size is regressed on various geographical, political and other determinants of city size for the period …
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315560
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...
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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor : Evidence from the Groves of Academe
Krapf, Matthias - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
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