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New Mothers? Labour Force Participation in Italy : The Role of Job Characteristics

Bratti, Massimiliano; Del Bono, Emilia; Vuri, Daniela - 2004

In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth of the first child. We focus on the effects of pre-marital job characteristics and find that...

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Establishment size and the dispersion of wages: evidence from European countries

Lallemand, Thierry; Rycx, François - 2005

We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...

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Marriage and other risky assets: a portfolio approach

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - 2009

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling for a number of observable characteristics, we show...

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Inconsistencies in reported employment characteristics among employed stayers

Bassi, Francesca; Padoan, Alessandra; Trivellato, Ugo - 2008

The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...

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Reducing Hours of Work: Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Braschi, Cristina - 2002

In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of the wider issue of the reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming at reducing working hours, and increases in overtime work neutralising their beneficial effects on employment,...

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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?

Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, William Stanley - 2004

Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits? average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age...

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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Centralized wage determination and regional unemployment differences: the case of Italy

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2008

Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North … unemployment rate between two to five times higher than the North. GDP per capita is also twice in the North than in the South … equilibrium matching model, explain the high unemployment rate in the South and, perhaps more interestingly, the low unemployment …

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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...

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Effects of employment protection and product market regulations on the Italian labor market

Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2003

Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their …

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