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Still searching for the wage curve : evidence from Germany and Italy

Ammermüller, Andreas; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica; … - 2007

This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …

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Public sector pay and regional competitiveness : a first look at regional public-private wage differentials in Italy

Dell'Aringa, Carlo (contributor); … - 2005

This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that …

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The public sector pay gap in France, Great Britain and Italy

Lucifora, Claudio (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2012

This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the introduction of collective performance related...

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Students' cheating as a social interaction : evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program

Lucifora, Claudio; Tonello, Marco - 2012

We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the effects on students' achievements. We exploit a...

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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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The "Bologna process" and college enrolment decisions

Cappellari, Lorenzo (contributor); … - 2008

We use survey data on cohorts of high school graduates observed before and after the Italian reform of tertiary education implementing the 'Bologna process' to estimate the impact of the reform on the decision to go to college. We find that individuals leaving high school after the reform have a...

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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a … larger share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the …

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