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Alesina, Alberto - 2016

rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of 'electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower …

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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program … more time daily in front of a screen on the internet or their smartphone, and that within-person increases in poor mental … mental health, and because the results caution against simply using the presence of the internet in the household, or low …

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1993

This paper compares changes in the structure of wages in France, Great Britain, Japan. and the United States over the last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and...

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Redistribution Through Public Employment : The Case of Italy

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy. Both the size of public employment and the level of …

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Revealing Stereotypes : Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alesina, Alberto - 2018

If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance...

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Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries : Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

Alesina, Alberto - 1996

on three case studies: Denmark, Ireland and Italy …

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Public Confidence and Debt Management : A Model and A Case Study of Italy

Alesina, Alberto - 1989

High debt countries may face the risk of self-fulfilling debt crises. If the public expects that in the future the government will be unable to roll over the maturing debt, they may refuse to buy debt today and choose to hold foreign assets. This lack of confidence may then be self-fulfilling....

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Political Budget Cycles : Evidence from Italian Cities

Alesina, Alberto - 2014

The introduction of a new real estate taxes in Italy in 2011 generated a natural experiment, which is useful to test …

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...

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