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Employment protection and fertility : evidence from the 1990 Italian reform

Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a 'fair cause' or 'justified motive' in firms...

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The effect of employment protection on worker effort : a comparison of absenteeism during and after probation

Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

discuss how this evidence can be used to estimate what the absenteeism rate would be in Italy if employment protection were …

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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014

Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young … Italy. Informed media report that similar developments are taking place also in countries of Eastern Europe, although no …

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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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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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The structure and history of Italian unemployment

Bertola, Giuseppe; Garibaldi, Pietro - 2003

unemployment rates along the path that brought Italy into Europe s Economic and Monetary Union, and their disaggregated structure …

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What's best for women : gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income?

Colombino, Ugo; Narazani, Edlira - 2012

We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of gender based taxation (GBT) as compared to other policies based on different optimal taxation principles. The comparison is interesting because GBT, although...

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Credit market constraints and labor market decisions

Del Boca, Daniela; Lusardi, Annamaria - 2002

market. We take the case of Italy, a country that experienced changes in the mortgage market brought about by the 1992 … European unification and other institutional shifts. These events make Italy a good laboratory to study the effects of … financial markets on the labor market. Using a simultaneous equation framework and household data from the Bank of Italy between …

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The side effect of pension reforms on training : evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2013

Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s …

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Employment Protection and Fertility : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Prifti, Ervin - 2012

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