Andrea Ichino

Gender Wage Gap in Expectation and Realizations (2005)

Lo splendido isolamento dell'universita' italiana (2005)

ICHINO, Andrea, GAGLIARDUCCI, Stefano, PERI, Giovanni, PEROTTI, Roberto

Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations (2005)

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort. A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation (2005)

Realized wages are affected by investments and signals concerning productivity, which workers undertake on the basis of expectations on future job prospects. Thus, the gender wage gap is also likely...

Gender Wage Gap in Expectation and Realizations (2005)

Lo splendido isolamento dell'universita' italiana (2005)

ICHINO, Andrea, GAGLIARDUCCI, Stefano, PERI, Giovanni, PEROTTI, Roberto

Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations (2005)

Temporary Work Agencies in Italy: A Springboard Toward Permanent Employment? (2005)

Realized wages are affected by investments and signals concerning productivity, which workers undertake on the basis of expectations on future job prospects. Thus, the gender wage gap is also likely...

ICHINO, Andrea, MEALLI, Fabrizia, NANNICINI, Tommaso

Clean Evidence on Peer Effects (2005)

ICHINO, Andrea, FALK, Armin

We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the "pair" treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer...

Scuola e mobilità sociale: un'analisi comparata (2005)

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort. A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation (2005)

Gender Wage Gap in Expectation and Realizations (2005)

Lo splendido isolamento dell'universita' italiana (2005)

ICHINO, Andrea, GAGLIARDUCCI, Stefano, PERI, Giovanni, PEROTTI, Roberto

Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations (2005)

Temporary Work Agencies in Italy: A Springboard Toward Permanent Employment? (2005)

Realized wages are affected by investments and signals concerning productivity, which workers undertake on the basis of expectations on future job prospects. Thus, the gender wage gap is also likely...

ICHINO, Andrea, MEALLI, Fabrizia, NANNICINI, Tommaso

Clean Evidence on Peer Effects (2005)

ICHINO, Andrea, FALK, Armin

We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the "pair" treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer...

Scuola e mobilità sociale: un'analisi comparata (2005)

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II (2004)

Absenteeism and Employment Protection: three case studies (2004)

Reconciling Motherhood and Work: Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, DE GALDEANO, Anna Sanz

How often should you open the door?: optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, MUEHLHEUSSER, Gerd

Absenteeism and Employment Protection: Three Case Studies (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, RIPHAHN, Regina

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II (2004)

How Large is the 'Brain Drain' from Italy? (2004)

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were 10 years old...

ICHINO, Andrea, PERI, Giovanni, BECKER, Sascha

Reconciling Motherhood and Work. Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, SANZ DE GALDEANO, Anna

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II (2004)

Absenteeism and Employment Protection: three case studies (2004)

Reconciling Motherhood and Work: Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, DE GALDEANO, Anna Sanz

How often should you open the door?: optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, MUEHLHEUSSER, Gerd

Absenteeism and Employment Protection: Three Case Studies (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, RIPHAHN, Regina

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II (2004)

How Large is the 'Brain Drain' from Italy? (2004)

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were 10 years old...

ICHINO, Andrea, PERI, Giovanni, BECKER, Sascha

Reconciling Motherhood and Work. Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, SANZ DE GALDEANO, Anna

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II (2004)

Absenteeism and Employment Protection: three case studies (2004)

Reconciling Motherhood and Work: Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, DE GALDEANO, Anna Sanz

How often should you open the door?: optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, MUEHLHEUSSER, Gerd

Absenteeism and Employment Protection: Three Case Studies (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, RIPHAHN, Regina

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II (2004)

How Large is the 'Brain Drain' from Italy? (2004)

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were 10 years old...

ICHINO, Andrea, PERI, Giovanni, BECKER, Sascha

Reconciling Motherhood and Work. Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries (2004)

ICHINO, Andrea, SANZ DE GALDEANO, Anna

Trust and Trustworthiness among Europeans: South- North Comparison ∗ (2004)

Fabian Bornhorst, Andrea Ichino, Karl Schlag, Eyal Winter, Jaap Dronkers, ...

This paper discovers significant differences between southern and northern Europeans in a dynamic version of the “trust game ” played by Ph.D. students from different nationalities at the...

Are judges biased by labor market conditions? (2003)

Ichino, Andrea, Polo, Michele, Rettore, Enrico

When a firing litigation is taken to court, only the characteristics of the employee's misconduct should be relevant for the judge's decision. Using detailed data from an Italian bank and aggregate...

Clean evidence on peer pressure Elektronische Daten (2003)

Are Judges Biased by Labor Market Conditions? (2003)

ICHINO, Andrea, POLO, Michele, RETTORE, Enrico

How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy? (2003)

ICHINO, Andrea, BECKER, Sascha, PERI, Giovanni

Are Judges Biased by Labor Market Conditions? (2003)

ICHINO, Andrea, POLO, Michele, RETTORE, Enrico

How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy? (2003)

ICHINO, Andrea, BECKER, Sascha, PERI, Giovanni

Le perplessità di un utilizzatore di dati di fronte al "Codice di deontologia e buona condotta per il trattamento di dati personali per scopi statistici e scientifici" (2003)

Are Judges Biased by Labor Market Conditions? (2003)

ICHINO, Andrea, POLO, Michele, RETTORE, Enrico

How Large is the Brain Drain from Italy? (2003)

ICHINO, Andrea, BECKER, Sascha, PERI, Giovanni

Le perplessità di un utilizzatore di dati di fronte al "Codice di deontologia e buona condotta per il trattamento di dati personali per scopi statistici e scientifici" (2003)

Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure (2003)

Estimation of Average Treatment Effects based on Propensity Scores (2002)

While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility of using observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments over the potential for obtaining clean evidence. In this paper we...

ICHINO, Andrea, BECKER, Sascha

Estimation of Average Treatment Effects based on Propensity Scores (2002)

ICHINO, Andrea, BECKER, Sascha

Estimation of Average Treatment Effects based on Propensity Scores (2002)

ICHINO, Andrea, BECKER, Sascha

Productivity, Seniority and Wages: New Evidence from Personnel Data (2001)

ICHINO, Andrea, FLABBI, Luca

Wages may be observed to increase with seniority because of firm-specific human capital accumulation or because of self-selection of better workers in longer jobs. In both these cases, the upward...

Il problema della causalità. Una introduzione generale e un esempio (2001)

Productivity, Seniority and Wages: New Evidence from Personnel Data (2001)

ICHINO, Andrea, FLABBI, Luca

Wages may be observed to increase with seniority because of firm-specific human capital accumulation or because of self-selection of better workers in longer jobs. In both these cases, the upward...

Il problema della causalità. Una introduzione generale e un esempio (2001)

Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differential in a Large Italian Firm (2000)

ICHINO, Andrea, MAGGI, Giovanni

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more...

Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differential in a Large Italian Firm (2000)

ICHINO, Andrea, MAGGI, Giovanni

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more...

Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differential in a Large Italian Firm (2000)

ICHINO, Andrea, MAGGI, Giovanni

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more...

More Equal but Less Mobile?: Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US (1999)

Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments (1999)

A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we...

Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm (1999)

Several recent studies based on exogenous' sources of variation in educational outcomes show IV estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding OLS estimates....

More Equal but Less Mobile?: Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US (1999)

Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments (1999)

A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we...

Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm (1999)

Several recent studies based on exogenous' sources of variation in educational outcomes show IV estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding OLS estimates....

Minimum Quality Standard as an Environmental Policy: Domestic and International Effects (1999)

ICHINO, Andrea, THISSE, Jacques

More Equal but Less Mobile?: Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US (1999)

Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments (1999)

A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we...

Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm (1999)

Several recent studies based on exogenous' sources of variation in educational outcomes show IV estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding OLS estimates....

Minimum Quality Standard as an Environmental Policy: Domestic and International Effects (1999)

ICHINO, Andrea, THISSE, Jacques

More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US (1998)

RUSTICHINI, Aldo, ICHINO, Andrea, CHECCHI, Daniele

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_08.pdf

Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm (1998)

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II. An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation (1998)

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_09.pdf

Productivity, Seniority and Wages New Evidence from Personnel Data (1998)

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_10.pdf

FLABBI, Luca, ICHINO, Andrea

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_11.pdf

More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US (1998)

RUSTICHINI, Aldo, ICHINO, Andrea, CHECCHI, Daniele

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_08.pdf

Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm (1998)

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II. An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation (1998)

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_09.pdf

Productivity, Seniority and Wages New Evidence from Personnel Data (1998)

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_10.pdf

FLABBI, Luca, ICHINO, Andrea

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_11.pdf

More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US (1998)

RUSTICHINI, Aldo, ICHINO, Andrea, CHECCHI, Daniele

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_08.pdf

Discrimination or Individual Effort? Regional Productivity Differentials in a Large Italian Firm (1998)

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II. An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation (1998)

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_09.pdf

Productivity, Seniority and Wages New Evidence from Personnel Data (1998)

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_10.pdf

FLABBI, Luca, ICHINO, Andrea

http://www.iue.it/ECO/WP-Texts/98_11.pdf

The Long-run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Estimation (1998)

C Andrea Ichino, Badia Fiesolana, Andrea Ichino, Andrea Ichino

(University of Linz and CEPR) �

More Equal but Less Mobile? - Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US. (1998)

Aldo Rustichini, Andrea Ichino, Daniele Checchi, Ronald Dore, Richard Freeman, Larry Katz, ...

A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It is therefore somewhat surprising to observe that Italy, in comparison to the US,...

La disciplina limitativa dei licenziamenti: effetti e giustificazione nella letteratura economica recente (1997)

La disciplina limitativa dei licenziamenti: effetti e giustificazione nella letteratura economica recente (1997)

Immigration, human capital and growth in the host country (1994)

Dolado, Juan José [dolado], Ichino, Andrea, Goria, Alessandra

Immigration, as a source of population growth, is traditionally associated, by neoclassical economics, with negative output and growth effects for the host economy in per capita terms. This paper...

Flexible compensation as a risk sharing device : implications for industrial relations and corporate finance (1990)

Flexible compensation as a risk sharing device : implications for industrial relations and corporate finance (1990)

Flexible compensation as a risk sharing device : implications for industrial relations and corporate finance / (1990)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.

Ichino, Andrea.

Supervised by Michael J. Piore.

Flexible compensation as a risk sharing device : implications for industrial relations and corporate finance (1990)

Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.

Becker, Sascha O., Bentolila, Samuel, Fernandes, Ana, Ichino, Andrea

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay...

Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Becker, Sascha O., Bentolila, Samuel, Fernandes, Ana, Ichino, Andrea

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their...

Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children

Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, Andrea Ichino

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay...

Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, Andrea Ichino

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child’s residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their...

While confounding factors typically jeopardise the possibility of using observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility of obtaining clean evidence. In this Paper...

How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility to use observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this paper we...

Ichino, Andrea, Muehlheusser, Gerd

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the...

Reconciling Motherhood and Work: Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries

Andrea Ichino

In this study we compare evidence based on time use data for three countries: Italy, Germany and Sweden. While in all these countries working mothers appear to dedicate less time to child care than...

How often should you open the door? Optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents

Andrea Ichino, Gerd Muehlheusser

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the...

Job Insecurity and Children's Emancipation

Becker, Sascha, Bentolila, Samuel, Fernandes, Ana, Ichino, Andrea

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of...

How do People Play a Repeated Trust Game? Experimental Evidence

Bornhorst, Fabian, Ichino, Andrea, Kirchkamp, Oliver, Schlag, Karl H., Winter, Eyal

We run an experiment that implements a finitely repeated version of the trust game in which players can choose in each period with whom to interact. Change in trust and trustworthiness in terms of...

Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, Andrea Ichino

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their...

Gender wage gap in expectations and realizations

Filippin, Antonio, Ichino, Andrea

From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Ichino, Andrea, Mealli, Fabrizia, Nannicini, Tommaso

The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA...

Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea, Moretti, Enrico

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an...

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Absenteeism During and After Probation

Andrea Ichino, Regina T. Riphahn

Employment protection systems are widely believed to generate distortions in firms' hiring and firing decisions. However, much less is known about the impact of these regulations on workers'...

From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, Tommaso Nannicini

The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA...

College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

Garibaldi, Pietro, Giavazzi, Francesco, Ichino, Andrea, Rettore, Enrico

For many students throughout the world the time to obtain an academic degree extends beyond the normal completion time while college tuition is typically constant during the years of enrollment. In...

College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

Pietro Garibaldi, Francesco Giavazzi, Andrea Ichino, Enrico Rettore

For many students throughout the world the time to obtain an academic degree extends beyond the normal completion time while college tuition is typically constant during the years of enrollment. In...

Clean Evidence on Peer Effects

How Large Is the "Brain Drain" from Italy?

We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the "pair" treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer...

Sascha O. Becker, Andrea Ichino, Giovanni Peri

Using a comprehensive and newly organized dataset the present article shows that the human capital content of emigrants from Italy significantly increased during the 1990's. This is even more...

Temporary Work Agencies in Italy: A Springboard Toward Permanent Employment?

Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, Tommaso Nannicini

This paper measures to what extent Temporary Work Agency (TWA) employment creates a "springboard" toward permanent jobs, or a "trap" of endless precariousness. Applying Propensity Score matching in...

Ichino, Andrea, Schwerdt, Guido, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

Too Old to Work, too Young to Retire?

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

How often should you open the door? Optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents

Gerd Muehlheusser, Andrea Ichino

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the...

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Ichino, Andrea, Riphahn, Regina T.

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms’ hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal...

Report of the Editor in Chief to the September 2004 Executive Committee of the European Association of Labor Economics 27 July, 2004

While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility to use observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this paper we...

Editorial Announcement

Productivity, seniority and wages: new evidence from personnel data

Flabbi, Luca, Ichino, Andrea

More equal but less mobile?: Education financing and intergenerational mobility in Italy and in the US

Checchi, Daniele, Ichino, Andrea, Rustichini, Aldo

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alesina, Alberto F, Ichino, Andrea, Karabarbounis, Loukas

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labour supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are...

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?

Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, Tommaso Nannicini

The diffusion of temporary work agency (TWA) jobs has led to a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the USA, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA...

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are...

Unemployment and Consumption: Are Job Losses Less Painful near the Mediterranean?

Samuel Bentolila, Andrea Ichino

In this paper we analyze the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries: Spain and Italy (the South), and Germany,...

How Large is the "Brain Drain" from Italy?

Sascha Becker, Andrea Ichino, Giovanni Peri

Using a comprehensive and newly organized dataset the present article shows that the human capital content of emigrants from Italy significantly increased during the 1990's . This is even more...

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort. A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Ichino, Andrea, Riphahn, Regina T.

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms_ hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal...

Ichino, Andrea, Schwerdt, Guido, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We use firm closure data for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced by firm closure with similar...

Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations

Filippin, Antonio, Ichino, Andrea

This paper explores the extent to which the gender wage gap is anticipated by workers' expectations. Data collected among second year students of Bocconi University convey information about their...

Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation

Becker, Sascha O., Bentolila, Samuel, Fernandes, Ana, Ichino, Andrea

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of...

Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an...

Are judges biased by labor market conditions?

Ichino, Andrea, Polo, Michele, Rettore, Enrico

Lower and upper bounds of returns to schooling: An exercise in IV estimation with different instruments

Ichino, Andrea, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf

Flexible labor compensation, risk sharing and company leverage

Productivity, Seniority and Wages: New Evidence from Personnel Data

Flabbi, Luca, Ichino, Andrea

Wages may be observed to increase with seniority because of firm-specific human capital accumulation or because of self-selection of better workers in longer jobs. In both these cases the upward...

Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An Exercise in IV estimation with Different Instruments

Ichino, Andrea, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf

Several recent studies based on 'exogenous' sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the...

Are Judges Biased by Labor Market Conditions?

Andrea Ichino, Michele Polo, Enrico Rettore

When a firing litigation is taken to court, only the characteristics of the employee's misconduct should be relevant for the judge's decision. Using data from an Italian bank this paper shows that,...

Immigration, Human Capital and Growth in the Host Country: Evidence from Pooled Country Data

Dolado, Juan J., Goria, Alessandra, Ichino, Andrea

Immigration as a source of population growth is traditionally represented by neoclassical growth models with negative output and growth effects in per capita terms for the host economy. The reasoning...

Wage Inequality and Unemployment: US vs Europe

Bertola, Giuseppe, Ichino, Andrea

The radical liberalization of foreign trade in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989 has been a key part of the economic reform and has been accompanied by a full-scale geographical reorientation of...

More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States

Checchi, Daniele, Ichino, Andrea, Rustichini, Aldo

A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It is therefore somewhat surprising to observe that Italy, in comparison to the...

Culture, Discrimination and Individual Productivity: Regional Evidence from Personnel Data in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea, Ichino, Pietro

This paper documents the existence of striking regional differences in the reported behaviour of employees working within the same firm, but in different Italian regions. In particular, the frequency...

The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation

Ichino, Andrea, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the...

Work Environment And Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials In A Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea, Maggi, Giovanni

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more...

Unemployment and Consumption: Are Job Losses Less Painful near the Mediterranean?

Bentolila, Samuel, Ichino, Andrea

In this paper we analyse the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel data on households in five countries: Spain and Italy (the South), and Germany,...

Are Judges Biased by Labour Market Conditions? The Selection of Firing Litigations for Trial in an Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea, Polo, Michele, Rettore, Enrico

When a firing litigation is taken to court, only the characteristics of the employees’ misconduct should be relevant for the judge’s decision. Using data from an Italian bank this Paper shows...

The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Ichino, Andrea, Riphahn, Regina

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms’ hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on workers behaviour. The...

How Often Should you Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Ichino, Andrea, Muehlheusser, Gerd

This Paper shows that over monitoring a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine loyalty and if the cost of ending the relationship increases over...

Trust and Trustworthiness Among Europeans: South-North Comparison

Bornhorst, Fabian, Ichino, Andrea, Schlag, Karl, Winter, Eyal

This Paper discovers significant differences between southern and northern Europeans in a dynamic version of the ‘trust game’ played by Ph.D. students from different nationalities at the European...

Work Environment And Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials In A Large Italian Firm

Andrea Ichino, Giovanni Maggi

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more...

JOB INSECURITY AND CHILDREN'S EMANCIPATION

Sascha O. Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes, Andrea Ichino

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of...

Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores

Sascha O. Becker, Andrea Ichino

In this paper, we give a short overview of some propensity score matching estimators suggested in the evaluation literature, and we provide a set of Stata programs,which we illustrate using the...

Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido, Ichino, Andrea, Ruf, Oliver, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger...

Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger...

Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Ana Fernandes, Sascha Becker, Samuel Bentolila, Andrea Ichino

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their...

Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility of using observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments over the potential for obtaining clean evidence. In this paper we...

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger...

How often should you open the door?: Optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents

Ichino, Andrea, Muehlheusser, Gerd

Immigration, Human Capital and Growth in the Host Country: Evidence from Pooled Country Data.

Dolado, Juan J, Goria, Alessandra, Ichino, Andrea

Unemployment and consumption near and far away from the Mediterranean

Samuel Bentolila, Andrea Ichino

Consumption, Unemployment, Family ties, E21, E24,

Clean Evidence on Peer Effects