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There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing in Serie A are low and highly concentrated on TV rights, hence vulnerable to changing conditions in the mass media industry. Second, we document that there has been an...
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significant negative long run association between inflation and real GDP, which is suggestive of economic inefficiencies. Once the …
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We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...
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Education Statistics data on school district expenditures. School districts that switch to the four-day school weeks reduce … operating expenditures per pupil by 3.1 percent. The largest percentage reductions occur in spending areas where services are … reduced one day per week (e.g., food service, transportation), with little to no change in instructional expenditures …
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beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on …
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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered …
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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
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, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict … costs the equivalent of a 50% drop in GDP per year in terms of subjective wellbeing. Public debt, on the other hand, has a …
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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