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Are Credit Constraints In Italy Really More Binding In The South?, Claudio Lupi
Are Credit Constraints In Italy Really More Binding In The South?, Claudio Lupi
Claudio Lupi
This paper is motivated by a very practical question: are there significant geographical differences in the accessibility to the credit market on the part of Italian households? The investigation is carried using robust probit model. Estimation is carried out in a Bayesian framework. The results are somewhat surprising, showing that the area where households are more likely to be credit constrained is not the South, as could be easily imagined, but rather the highly developed and industrialized North-West.
Unemployment Scarring In High Unemployment Regions, Claudio Lupi, Patrizia Ordine
Unemployment Scarring In High Unemployment Regions, Claudio Lupi, Patrizia Ordine
Claudio Lupi
This paper investigates the effect of individual unemployment experiences on re-employment wages. The empirical analysis is carried out on a panel of Italian individuals. The main result is that while in the northern regions the effect is similar to the one estimated for the UK, in the southern area of the country the impact is not significant. We link this result to the particular socio-economic environment in which the unemployment spells are experienced. We argue that this might be due to the fact that in a high unemployment environment individual unemployment experiences are perceived as "normal" and do not necessarily …