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How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the capitalization of firms' local banks. The evidence comes from firms offering (quasi-) fixed employment to workers whose productivity depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this...
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amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the potential endogeneity of the "legalization treatment" by …
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possible autocorrelation and endogeneity. The results show that in the northern part of Italy, where most immigrants are … effect prevails, while there is a negative effect only in the manufacturing sector in Northern Italy for 1996. This effect …
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Italy, the UK, and the US, where more noticeable growth of income inequality during the last decade has accompanied changes … Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), a repeated cross-sectional survey that covers the period 1977-1998, we …
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investigate this issue using microdata by the Bank of Italy. In Italy, the incidence of overtime work among male dependent workers … is relatively high. In particular, we seek to ascertain if, for Italy too, the fear that a reduction in working hours …
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market. We take the case of Italy, a country that experienced changes in the mortgage market brought about by the 1992 … European unification and other institutional shifts. These events make Italy a good laboratory to study the effects of … financial markets on the labor market. Using a simultaneous equation framework and household data from the Bank of Italy between …
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grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have children under 15. We focus on Italy for two reasons …
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We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...
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describes the gender gap in math test scores in Italy, which is one of the countries displaying the largest differential between …
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From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract. We used micro data collected by the Italian...
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