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Inside the black box: Labour market institutions, wage formation and unemployment in Italy

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 … percent's unemployment rate in the South (6 percent in the North) and the presence of a large share of the labour force …

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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa - 2002

Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number...

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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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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009

This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...

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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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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help

Canova, Luciano; Vaglio, Alessandro - 2010

This paper investigates the role performed by mothers in affecting their childrens' performance at school. The article develops firstly a theoretical model in which household (parent-child pair) is treated as an individual, whose utility depends both on the performance at school of the student...

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