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The household budget survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...
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Latin American household budget surveys 1913-1970 and what they tell us about economic inequality among households
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Lanata Briones, Cecilia; … - 2018
The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the period from the earliest surveys to the late 1960s. Over one hundred studies were located. References to these surveys are available at...
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Inequality among European working households, 1890-1960
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2018
In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household expenditure surveys. Many are not representative of the...
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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs
Fasani, Francesco - 2016
amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the potential endogeneity of the "legalization treatment" by …
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
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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Employment patterns of husbands and wives and family income distribution in Italy (1977-1998)
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia - 2002
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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Reducing hours of work : does overtime act as a brake upon unemployment growth? : an analysis by gender for the case of Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Braschi, Cristina - 2002
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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Credit market constraints and labor market decisions
Del Boca, Daniela; Lusardi, Annamaria - 2002
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 availability for child care and maternal employment : pension reform evidence from Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Frattini, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2016
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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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016
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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