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Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households

Di, Wenhua - 2016

The empirical effects of place-based tax incentive schemes designed to aid low income communities are unclear. While a growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little investigation into other behaviors of households affected by such programs. We analyze the...

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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent - 2013

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy : Does Rationing Play a Role?

Brilli, Ylenia - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … coverage in Italy is scarce (12.7 percent versus the OECD average of 30 percent) and the service is “rationed”: each …

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In-Work Benefits for Married Couples : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of EITC and WTC Policies in Italy

De Luca, Giuseppe - 2012

This paper investigates labor supply and redistributive effects of in-work benefits for Italian married couples using a tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider two in-work benefit schemes following the key principles of the Earned...

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Employment Protection and Fertility : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Prifti, Ervin - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a 'fair cause' or 'justified motive' in firms...

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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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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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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

Belot, Michele - 2020

, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income …

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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Poggi, Ambra - 2007

Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?

O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … remains unexplained by differences in observed characteristics (except in Italy). Overall, results suggest that policy …

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