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Spatial externalities in big cities and duality of the labour market
Full text linkThis article investigates the dynamics of the spatial wage premium for workers employed on temporary and permanent contracts. We use an employer–employee database that covers the universe of young Italian employees for 2005–2016. On controlling for individual observed and unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity of the relationship, our findings indicate that workers hired on a temporary basis do not enjoy the same benefits from agglomeration externalities as workers on permanent contracts. Nonetheless, the likelihood of a temporary worker switching to a permanent contract, as well as its wage premium, increases with city size, thus partially offsetting the spatial dynamics disadvantage
Rent sharing as a driver of the glass ceiling effect
Full text linkIn this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by means of IV quantile fixed effects estimates we can cope with unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity. A discussion of different explanations is provided
Remittances, education and return migration. Evidence for immigrants in Spain
No full textWe analyse the relationship between intentions to return, remittances and human capital
for immigrants in Spain. With this aim, microdata from the 2007 Encuesta Nacional
de Inmigrantes – provided by the Spanish Institute of Statistics – are used to analyse
whether more educated migrants are more or less likely to remit (the extensive margin)
and, if they do remit, whether they send more or fewer remittances than less educated
migrants (the intensive margin). A negative association is found between education and
remittances at the extensive margin, and a strong positive relationship at the intensive
margin. However, the evidence is mixed once we take into account their different origins
and their intentions to return. Our results show a different behaviour of immigrants depending
on their region of origin that could be related to cultural and institutional differences,
which will be explored in further research
Wage Distribution and the Sorting of Workers
No full textThis article investigates the role that sorting plays in the relation between spatial externalities and wage distribution. Using Italian employer–employee panel data and quantile fixed-effects estimates, we point out that sorting matters and that its impact is
not uniformly distributed along the wage distribution. Nonetheless, after controlling for the spatial sorting and endogeneity, we find an increasing impact of spatial externalities along the wage distribution. We also characterize the spatial sorting of workers across sectors and along the skills distribution. We point out that the spatial sorting is not homogeneous across sectors and that there is evidence supporting interpretation in terms of a dilating effect
Commercio internazionale e disuguaglianze: il ruolo dei vantaggi comparati locali e globali
No full textWhat Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
Full text linkThis paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled workers benefit more from a wage premium accruing over time, while skilled workers enjoy a wage premium when they migrate as well as a wage increase over time. Further, we find that for unskilled workers the wage growth over time is mainly due to human capital accumulation, consistently with the learning hypothesis, while for skilled workers it is the coordination hypothesis that matters
Is There Rent Sharing in Italy? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data
No full textUsing a unique employer-employee panel database, we investigate the extent of rent sharing in Italy from 1996 to 2003. We derive the following findings. First, after controlling for the national bargaining level, there is robust evidence of rent sharing at firm level. Second, by means of fixed effects estimates we show that the sorting of high-ability workers into high-profit firms appears to play a substantial role, since it captures a significant amount of cross sectional estimates of rent sharing. Third, in accordance to the related literature the endogeneity of profits causes a severe underestimation of rent sharing. Our final IV estimate of the elasticity of wages with respect to profits per employee amounts to 6%, with a "Lester" range of 24%. Moreover, we point out that the impact of rent sharing is not homogeneous across several dimensions (gender, occupation, sector and macroarea)
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