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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
- F. D’Amuri, G. Ottaviano, G. Peri
- EconomicsWorld Scientific Studies in International…
- 1 March 2008
We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File…
The Predictive Power of Google Searches in Forecasting Unemployment
- F. D’Amuri, Juri Marcucci
- Economics
- 29 November 2012
We suggest the use of an index of Internet job-search intensity (the Google Index, GI) as the best leading indicator to predict the US monthly unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample…
Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
- F. D’Amuri, G. Peri
- Economics
- 30 June 2010
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates…
Productivity Growth in Italy: A Tale of a Slow-Motion Change
- Matteo Bugamelli, F. Lotti, Enrico Sette
- Economics
- 29 January 2018
Productivity is the main factor holding back long-term economic growth in Italy. Since the second half of the 1990s, productivity growth has been feeble both by historical standards and compared with…
'Google It!' Forecasting the US Unemployment Rate with A Google Job Search Index
- F. D’Amuri, Juri Marcucci
- Economics
- 22 April 2010
We suggest the use of an Internet job-search indicator (the Google Index, GI) as the best leading indicator to predict the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison…
A Feasible Unemployment-Based Shock Absorber for the Euro Area
- A. Brandolini, F. Carta, F. D’Amuri
- Economics
- 20 November 2014
This paper contributes to the debate on the design of a centralised fiscal tool absorbing country-specific negative shocks in the euro area. Based on theoretical insights, it identifies the broad…
Workers' Tax Evasion in Italy
- C. Fiorio, F. D’Amuri
- Economics
- 1 April 2005
We apply a direct method to estimate tax evasion in Italy, assuming that tax evaders might consider declaring a closer-to-true income in an anonymous interview. The methodology is applied to employed…
Monitoring and disincentives in containing paid sick leave
- F. D’Amuri
- Economics
- 1 December 2017
Report on Trends in the Italian Productive System
- Guglielmo Barone, Antonio Bassanetti, Stefania Zotteri
- Economics
- 28 April 2009
In the last decade the Italian economy has underperformed compared both with the previous decades and with the main European countries. It is widely acknowledged that this evolution reflects…
Monetary Incentives vs. Monitoring in Addressing Absenteeism: Experimental Evidence
- F. D’Amuri
- Economics
- 12 January 2011
Exploiting two unexpected variations in sickness absence policy for civil servants in Italy, this paper assesses the relative importance of monitoring and monetary incentives in determining a basic…
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