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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 … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …

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The Agglomeration of Urban Amenities : Evidence from Milan Restaurants

Leonardi, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In many cities, restaurants and retail establishments are spatially concentrated. Economists have long recognized the presence of demand externalities that arise from spatial agglomeration as a possible explanation, but empirically identifying this type of spillovers has proven difficult. We...

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea - 2006

personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females …

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People, Places and Public Policy : Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Kline, Patrick - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...

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State Incentives for Innovation, Star Scientists and Jobs : Evidence from Biotech

Moretti, Enrico - 2013

We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech employers by a state raises the number of star biotech...

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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push : 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority

Kline, Patrick M. - 2013

We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs in U.S. history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were proposed but never approved by Congress, we find that the TVA led to large gains in agricultural employment that...

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Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers : Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

Greenstone, Michael - 2008

After the new plant opening, incumbent plants in winning counties experience a sharp relative increase in TFP. Five years after the opening, TFP of incumbent plants in winning counties is 12% higher than TFP of incumbent plants in losing counties. Consistent with some theories of agglomeration,...

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Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

Card, David - 2005

Supporters of touch-screen voting claim it is a highly reliable voting technology, while a growing number of critics argue that paperless electronic voting systems are vulnerable to fraud. In this paper we use county-level data on voting technologies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections...

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The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior : Evidence from Weather Shocks

Jacob, Brian - 2004

The persistence of criminal activity is well documented. While such serial correlation may be evidence of social interactions in the production of crime, it may also be due to the persistence of unobserved determinants of crime. Moreover, there are good reasons to believe that, particularly over...

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