Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Emanuele Bracco (Lancaster University)
Monday Lunch Seminars Emanuele Bracco (Lancaster University)
"The Effect of Immigration and Immigration Policies on the Underground Economy?"
Seminars in Economics Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)
Seminars in Economics Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)
"Wage compression within the firm" abstract We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the textit{Scala Mobile} (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. By imposing nominal adjustments to all workers in the economy, the SM increased real wages at the bottom of the…
Arthur Van Soest (Tilburg University)
Arthur Van Soest (Tilburg University)
"Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis" Abstract We analyze the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel on couples in the age group 45-75, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that…
Seminars in Politics and Society Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)
Seminars in Politics and Society Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow)
"Explaining variation of EU effectiveness in international development negotiations" abstract This article analyses the role played by the European Union in the changing development architecture, focusing on the negotiation and conclusion of four high-level forums on aid effectiveness, held in Rome (2003), Paris (2005), Accra (2008) and Busan (2011). Drawing on published and unpublished material and…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Martin Fransman (University of Edimburgh)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Martin Fransman (University of Edimburgh)
"Re-thinking the role of innovation in companies and the implications for government policy" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")