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Le misure a supporto di lavoratori e imprese durante la pandemia di COVID-19 in Italia
No full textQuesto documento di lavoro fornisce un’analisi retrospettiva degli effetti della pandemia sul mercato del lavoro italiano e delle misure attuate dalle istituzioni pubbliche per attenuarne gli effetti negativi
sulle imprese e sul lavoro. La prima parte del documento (capitoli 2 e 3) si focalizza sugli impatti indotti
dalla crisi del COVID-19 sui diversi gruppi di lavoratrici e lavoratori. Il quadro che emerge evidenzia
che le lavoratrici e i lavoratori che, già prima della crisi, erano in una situazione di svantaggio si sono
trovati in uno stato di maggiore vulnerabilità a seguito del diffondersi della pandemia
Using newspaper obituaries to “nowcast” daily mortality: evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots
Get PDFReal-time tracking of epidemic helps governments and health authorities make timely data-driven decisions. Official mortality data, whenever reliable and available, is usually published with a substantial delay. We report results of using newspapers obituaries to “nowcast” the mortality levels observed in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak between February 24, 2020 and April 15, 2020. Mortality levels predicted using obituaries outperform forecasts based on past mortality according to several performance metrics, making obituaries a potentially valid alternative source of information to deal with epidemic surveillance
Le misure a supporto di lavoratori e imprese durante la pandemia di COVID-19 in Italia
No full textQuesto documento di lavoro fornisce un’analisi retrospettiva degli effetti della pandemia sul mercato del lavoro italiano e delle misure attuate dalle istituzioni pubbliche per attenuarne gli effetti negativi
sulle imprese e sul lavoro. La prima parte del documento (capitoli 2 e 3) si focalizza sugli impatti indotti
dalla crisi del COVID-19 sui diversi gruppi di lavoratrici e lavoratori. Il quadro che emerge evidenzia
che le lavoratrici e i lavoratori che, già prima della crisi, erano in una situazione di svantaggio si sono
trovati in uno stato di maggiore vulnerabilità a seguito del diffondersi della pandemia
Intention-based social influence in (non)strategic sharing experiments
Get PDFWe experimentally study intention-based social influence in standard and modified Ultimatum and Impunity games. Standard games with bi-dimensional strategy vectors let individuals decide independently in the role of proposer and responder and allow fairness intentions to be role dependent. Uni-dimensional strategy vectors in modified games constrain individuals to consistent offers and acceptance thresholds. To induce social influence, we randomly match participants in groups of four, which are minimally identified by colors. Social influence is assessed by how one reacts to information about median group intention(s). The 2×2 factorial experimental design varies the order of the two game types and the strategy vector dimensionality. Social influence, depending on the game type and strategy dimensionality, significantly impacts participants’ behavior compared to their own intention. At the aggregate level, however, these differences cancel each other out. As there are more constraints on the action space, uni-dimensionality increases strategic concerns
The role of civic capital on vaccination
Get PDFCan civic-minded individuals fight against a pandemic? In this paper, we show that civic capital plays an important role when assessing the level of compliance with COVID-19 vaccination recommendations. Analyzing data on a large sample of municipalities from the Italian region of Lombardy, we show that the share of vaccinated individuals is significantly higher in municipalities with higher pre-determined levels of civic capital. These findings are robust to the possibility of spatial spillovers across neighboring municipalities. Our findings contribute to the existing evidence highlighting the importance of individual contributions and civic capital as important behavioral determinants affecting the containment of infectious diseases
Earthquake hazard and civic capital
Get PDFWe examine the empirical relationship between the exposure to earthquake hazard and civic capital in Italian municipalities. Drawing on the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, we find that earthquake hazard increases civic capital. We exploit variation across neighboring municipalities and use a neighbor-pair fixed effect estimator to establish a causal link between earthquake hazard and the accumulation of civic capital. We decompose the effect of earthquake hazard variation along four dimensions – frequency, space, magnitude, and timing – and observe that the effect is mostly explained by high-magnitude seismic events in the past. Our results are in line with the intuition that cooperative social norms build over a very long time span
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