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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts

Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …

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Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio; Caroli, Eve - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...

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Not in my Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Brunello, Giorgio; Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

There is growing evidence that social pressure shapes firms' behavior. Given how sensitive communities are to downsizing, this suggests that firms are likely to be under strong social pressure when considering reducing employment. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social...

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Training and Economic Density: Some Evidence from Italian Provinces

Brunello, Giorgio; Paola, Maria De - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2006

In this paper we use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in opposite directions: on the one hand, the complementarity between local knowledge spillovers and...

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Educational standards in private and public schools

Brunello, Giorgio; ?Lorenzo Rocco - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

?When school quality increases with the educational standard set by schools, education before college needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools. An alternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than private...

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Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...

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Do Spatial Agglomeration and Local Labor Market Competition Affect Employer - Provided Training? Evidence from the UK

Brunello, Giorgio; Gambarotto, Francesca - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2006

In this paper we use British data to ask whether local employment density - which we take as a proxy of labor market competition - affects employer - provided training. We find that training is less frequent in economically denser areas. We interpret this result as evidence that the balance of...

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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...

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Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression Is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

When labor markets are imperfectly competitive, firms may be willing to finance general training if the wage structure is compressed, that is, if the increase of productivity after training is greater than the increase in pay. We propose a novel way of testing this proposition, which exploits...

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School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

regions and cohorts with poorer family background. Parental education has had asymmetric effects, positive on attainment and … individuals with poor family background and negative for individuals born in regions and cohorts with relatively high parental … to parental education in the production of individual human capital. When school quality and family background are …

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