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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - 2014
of tertiary-educated immigrants were 16.4% for France, 21.8% for Germany, 15.4% for Italy and 18.5% for Spain. Now … which was exposed to a very fast and large wave of immigration during the 2000s -- Italy --, and for which evidence is scant …
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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329088
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - 2014
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of immigrants did not have any effect on innovation....
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Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019
than 15 employees in Italy. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas and exports
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018
: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale (NUTS-3) administrative data on immigrants' location in Italy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055416
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Employment protection, temporary contracts and firm-provided training: Evidence from Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2018
In this study we leverage on Italy’s size-contingent firing restrictions in order to identify the causal effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firm-provided training using a regression discontinuity design. Our analysis demonstrates that higher levels of EPL reduce...
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Does the expansion of higher education increase the equality of educational opportunities? Evidence from Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Blasio, Guido de - 2008
opportunities. It examines Italy's experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range …
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: the case of Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009
show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269700
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Did COVID-19 (Permanently) Raise the Demand for "Teleworkable" Jobs?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Brunetti, I.; Corvasce, A.; … - 2024
large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic observed in Italy. Namely, we investigate the effect of COVID-19 … larger firms, of service firms, and of those located in Northern Italy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533840
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Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019
In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179966