Exploiting two unexpected variations in sickness absence policy for civil servants in Italy, this paper assesses the relative importance of monitoring and monetary incentives in determining a basic measure of effort: presence at work. When stricter monitoring was introduced together with an...

The aim of this paper is to give a detailed description of TABEITA, the tax-benefit Micro Simulation Model (MSM) developed and maintained at Econpubblica (Center for Research on the Public Sector, Bocconi University) for the analysis of the redistributive impact of the Italian Personal Income...

Following the two surveys carried out in 2007 and 2009 on firms' price and wage setting practices, in June 2013 the ESCB's Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) conducted a third survey aimed at assessing, through a harmonised questionnaire, the most important transformations under way in the national...

We apply a direct method to estimate tax evasion in Italy assuming that ax evaders might consider declaring a closer-to-true income in an anonymous interview. The methodology is applied to employed and self-employed tax-payers, combining the Survey of Household Income (SHIW) by the Bank of Italy...