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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
Coviello, Decio - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132617
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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap
Ichino, Andrea - 2006
In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779745
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903630
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891326
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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2010
University in Italy, this paper shows that an increase of 1,000 euro in the continuation tuition reduces the probability of late …
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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm
Ichino, Andrea; Maggi, Giovanni - 2021
workers across regions; differences in local attributes; different hiring policies and discrimination against southern workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234928
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Wage Differentials in Italy : Market Forces, Institutions, and Inflation
Erickson, Christopher L.; Ichino, Andrea - 2022
During the 1970s, Italy experienced an extreme compression of wage differentials, similar to the better-known situation … (the loss of support for unions and their egalitarian pay policies). While we cannot definitively distinguish among the … relative influences of institutions, market forces, technology and politics on the evolution of earnings inequality in Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311203
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229009