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Gender unemployment catching-up : empirical evidence from Italian regions

Belloc, Marianna; Tilli, Riccardo - 2010

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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Is the Italian public debt really unsustainable? : an historical comparison (1861-2010)

Bartoletto, Silvana; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2013

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Optimal fiscal action in an economy with sovereign Premia and without monetary independence : an application to Italy

Philippopulos, Apostolēs; Varthalitis, Petros; … - 2013

We welfare rank various tax-spending policies. The setup is a New Keynesian model of a semi-small open economy featuring sovereign risk premia and loss of monetary policy independence. The model is calibrated to match data from the Italian economy 2001-2011. We compute various optimized...

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Political competition, tax salience and accountability : theory and some evidence from Italy

Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2013 - This version: February 2013

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Policy responses to fiscal restraints : a difference-in-discontinuities design

Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - 2012 - This version, October 2012

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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

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Behavior under social pressure : empty Italian stadiums and referee bias

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The development of cities in Italy 1300 - 1861

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