Italian Abstract: Numerose analisi documentano, da tempo, l’esistenza di significative eterogeneità nella distribuzione dei dipendenti pubblici in Italia. Un approfondimento quantitativo condotto sui servizi anagrafici dei Comuni italiani ne dà conferma, evidenziando l’esistenza di...

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...

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

In the last decade the Italian economy has underperformed compared both with the previous decades and with the main European countries. It is widely acknowledged that this evolution reflects unresolved structural problems, which have become more urgent in view of the major changes in the world...

We suggest the use of an Internet job-search indicator (the Google Index, GI) as the best leading indicator to predict the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our preferred leading indicator (GI), the more standard...

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on natives’ job specialization in Western Europe. We test whether the inflow of immigrants changes employment rates or the chosen occupation of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first and strong evidence of the...