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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

.5 percentage points due to weak-bank attachment, representing between 8% and 36% of aggregate job losses …

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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

Defever, Fabrice - 2013

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports...

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment : Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy

Basile, Roberto - 2011

specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes … in the international division of labour occurred. Italy represents an interesting case study because of the high degree …

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On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy : Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?

Mancini, Anna Laura - 2011

The intergenerational transmission of preference and attitudes has been less investigated in the literature than the intergenerational transmission of education and income. Using the Italian Time Use Survey (2002-2003) conducted by ISTAT, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of reading...

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Is There a Southern-Sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy

Mussida, Chiara - 2012

and the extent of workers reallocation. This paper aims to test different theoretical hypotheses in the case of Italy by …

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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2012

We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. Our results show that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the...

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Exports and Wages : Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?

Macis, Mario - 2012

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …

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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...

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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on …

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