649 research outputs found
Like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? Ethnic diversity and social participation of young people in England
The paper studies the impact of ethnic diversity on social participation of young people. We first propose a theoretical model in which the agents choose between structured and unstructured social activities by taking into account the ethnic composition of the groups they join. We test our predictions using English census data together with the “Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England” (LSYPE) and we find that ethnic segregation increases the probability of hanging around near home, while ethnic fractionalization decreases it. Furthermore, more structured activities are not affected by ethnic fractionalization. Finally, we use an IV strategy based on both historical and geographical data to correct for endogenous sorting into neighborhoods. The results we get are even stronger than those obtained where the ethnic composition of the neighborhood is taken as exogenous.Social participation, Fractionalization, Segregation
Tax Systems and tax reforms in Latin America, Part I : country studies, Colombia
This paper is a part of a wider research concerning taxation in the main world economic areas, carried on at the Department of Public economic on the University of Pvia, Italy, directed by L. Bernardi and P. Profeta, under the supervision of Vito Tanzi. The paper illustrates and discusses the Colombian tax ssystems with respect to its structure, developments and reforms until the last chenges of 2007, December.Tax Systems Tax Reforms Colombia
Chronic diseases and labor market outcomes in Egypt
By causing a sizeable reduction in employment 6 percent and labor supply 19 percent, chronic diseases are responsible for a major efficiency loss in the Egyptian economy. Furthermore the impact of chronic diseases on the labor market is not uniformly distributed. The older and the less educated suffer a larger drop in the probability of being employed and in their supply of working hours. The authors estimate the reduced form equations of individual employment status, labor supply and the usual wage equation. They control for unobserved ability and individual preferences by means of a within-siblings estimator. Measurement errors in our self-reported health variable have been accounted for.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Markets,Disease Control&Prevention,Labor Policies,Population Policies
Subjective well-being and the gender composition of the reference group: Evidence from a survey experiment
This paper tests how people’s subjective well-being reacts when they compare themselves with other people of the same gender, and if this reaction differs between women and men. We implement a randomized control trial prompting some respondents to compare themselves with people of the same gender and leaving the reference group of others unconstrained. Treated women report higher income and leisure satisfaction. Evaluating satisfaction in relation to a given reference group may be cognitively demanding. When accounting for this, we find that the treatment also increases women’s health satisfaction. No or small effects are found for men, suggesting that the reference group affects subjective well-being reporting of men and women differently
Florence au xviie siècle : la cour et les artistes
En suivant le sommaire d’un livre en cours d’écriture, les conférences ont porté sur la place des artistes à la cour des Médicis, à Florence, et plus particulièrement sur la question de leurs rapports avec la famille grand-ducale et celle de leurs conditions de travail et financières. Après avoir precisé les modalités de la presence des artistes dans les Rôles (Ruoli) de la cour et les changements subis par cette catégorie du personnel au service des grands-ducs entre le xvie et le xviie siècle, on a focalisé l’attention sur trois cas emblématiques de peintres du Seicento, Pierre de Cortone, Salvator Rosa et Luca Giordano. Au cours des dix dernières années, nombre de documents ont jeté une lumière nouvelle sur l’activité florentine de ces trois artistes, tout en offrant la possibilité de repenser la chronologie de leur œuvre et de mieux comprendre leurs relations avec la cour qui les employait
Originali e copie nella Lettera di Filippo Baldinucci a Vincenzo Capponi
This contribution aims to analyse Filippo Baldinucci’s Letter to Vincenzo Capponi (Rome, 1681) in all its aspects, particularly
its concept of original and copy, taking into account Baldinucci’s position in the Accademia del Disegno and in the Roman cultural
milieu. Through some examples, the essay also intends to assess the Letter vis- -vis the correspondence between the Medici agents
in Venice and the court, in order to emphasise the relation between the artistic literature on copies and the practical experience of the
individuals who had to secure paintings for demanding collectors such as prince Leopoldo de’ Medici
Florence au xviie siècle : la cour et les artistes
En suivant le sommaire d’un livre en cours d’écriture, les conférences ont porté sur la place des artistes à la cour des Médicis, à Florence, et plus particulièrement sur la question de leurs rapports avec la famille grand-ducale et celle de leurs conditions de travail et financières. Après avoir precisé les modalités de la presence des artistes dans les Rôles (Ruoli) de la cour et les changements subis par cette catégorie du personnel au service des grands-ducs entre le xvie et le xviie siècle, on a focalisé l’attention sur trois cas emblématiques de peintres du Seicento, Pierre de Cortone, Salvator Rosa et Luca Giordano. Au cours des dix dernières années, nombre de documents ont jeté une lumière nouvelle sur l’activité florentine de ces trois artistes, tout en offrant la possibilité de repenser la chronologie de leur œuvre et de mieux comprendre leurs relations avec la cour qui les employait
Tax Systems and tax reforms in Latin America, Part I : country studies, Colombia
This paper is a part of a wider research concerning taxation in the main world economic areas, carried on at the Department of Public economic on the University of Pvia, Italy, directed by L. Bernardi and P. Profeta, under the supervision of Vito Tanzi. The paper illustrates and discusses the Colombian tax ssystems with respect to its structure, developments and reforms until the last chenges of 2007, December
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