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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically …
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are allowed to be cross sectionally dependent. Following Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is...
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Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour : Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment
Drago, Francesco - 2011
We exploit the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 to evaluate the indirect effects of a policy that randomly commutes actual sentences to expected sentences for 40 percent of the Italian prison population. We estimate the direct and indirect impact of the...
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
Coviello, Decio - 2010
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2010
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduatesﾒ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase in the size of the individualﾒs province of work reduces the chances of being an...
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Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy : The Italian Experience
Pastore, Francesco - 2010
The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment : Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Basile, Roberto - 2011
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry 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....
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Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms : The Case of Italy
Colombino, Ugo - 2011
Differently from most European countries and despite the recommendations on the part of the European Commission, Italy still misses a sufficiently systematic and nationwide mechanism of income support. In this paper we want to explore the feasibility, the desirability and the features of a...
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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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Talking About the Pigou Paradox : Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
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