Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level … show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher … wages. This evidence is robust to many variants of the econometric specification and to addressing potential endogeneity …