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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao - 2013

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...

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Good and Bad Institutions : Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - 2011

Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...

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Mothers' Labour Market Participation : Do Grandparents Make it Easier?

Arpino, Bruno; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Tavares, Lara … - 2013

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically,...

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Scarring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Italian Labour Market

Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the share of inactive individuals in 2020 in Italy, mostly at the expense of permanent and … severely the ones living in large households in the North and Center of Italy. These findings find a rationale both in the …

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

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Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy : IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …'s educational outcomes using many waves of the Survey on Household Income and Wealth of the Bank of Italy and focusing on the …

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The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries : A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2022

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2022

the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants many of them specialized in the supply …

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Learning at Home : Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2022

May in France and Italy, we estimate child fixed effects models to analyze how the lockdown has affected children … boys, on kids attending kindergarten (in Italy) or secondary school (in France), and on children whose parents have a lower … methodologies, that has been much more common in Italy than in France, appears to significantly attenuate the negative impact on …

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2008

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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