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Il lavoro irregolare in Italia: un'analisi panel regionale
[Underground Employment in the Regions of Italy: A Panel Analysis]

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  • Lisi, Gaetano
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    This empirical paper investigates two important and controversial economic relationship: the link between underground employment and unemployment, and the connection among underground economy and local factors. The key results of this analysis are two. The first: the causality relationship between underground employment and unemployment is bidirectional and asymmetric. The second: the local and unobservable variables play an instrumental role in explaining the different underground activity rates recorded in the Italian regions.

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    Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 18525.

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    Date of creation: 13 Nov 2009
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    Keywords: underground employment; panel models; underground economy;

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