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Did Covid-19 affect the division of labor within the household? : evidence from two waves of the pandemic in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021

during the pandemic on the traditional division of household labor in Italy using survey data from interviews with a …

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The economics of politics : patronage and political selection in Italy

Quaresima, Federico; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2016

This article investigates the patronage phenomenon in the italian, so called, Second Republic. In particular, the analysis argues that (ex) members of parliament are appointed to managerial boards in italian (partially) state-owned enterprises responding to political selection rationales....

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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2011

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers

Paggiaro, Adriano (contributor); Rettore, Enrico (contributor) - 2008

Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a "passive" component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an "active" component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...

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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions

Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008

Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...

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Organized crime and foreign direct investment : the Italian case

Daniele, Vittorio (contributor); Marani, Ugo (contributor) - 2008

be perceived as a signal of a socio-institutional environment unfavourable for FDI. -- FDI determinants ; Italy …

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Fiscal policy and the banking system in Italy : have taxes, public spending and banks been procyclical in the long-run?

Piluso, Giandomenico (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyses the relations between the banking system fluctuations, on one hand, and taxation and public spending, on the other one, using a VECM methodology. We find some evidence of prociclicality of fiscal policy using variables such as government spending, taxes, and primary surplus....

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Job mobility and the gender wage gap in Italy

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Vuri, Daniela (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...

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Connections and performance in bankers' turnover : better wed over the mixen than over the moor

Battistin, Erich (contributor); Graziano, Clara (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we study top executive turnover in Italian Banks over the period 1993-2001. We relate the probability of survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank...

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