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edoardodiporto.bsky.social @edoardodiporto.bsky.social · Jul 21

Call for Papers – Workshop on Employment Dynamics and Wage Structures in the 21st Century: Bridging Microdata and Policy
📌 Panmure House, Edinburgh
🧷Keynote speakers: John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland) and Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University)

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our afternoon session begins with @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social presenting “One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap”. #EconomicsOfAging

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · May 1

Oltre le luci, anche le ombre: su @valigiablu.it ho scritto del mercato del lavoro italiano e del perché, per risolvere i problemi strutturali, tagliare il cuneo fiscale non è abbastanza. Serve una strategia per la produttività. La sinistra può offrire questa alternativa?

ll mondo del lavoro in Italia: occupati ma sfruttati - Valigia Blu

Il lavoro in Italia cresce solo nei numeri: salari reali fermi da decenni, contratti frammentati, lavoratori poveri in aumento. Il taglio del cuneo non basta. Serve una strategia che punti su produtti...

www.valigiablu.it

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

Finally, PL take-up among fathers is associated with better labor market outcomes among their female partners: they work and earn more.🟢

Male partners are instead almost unaffected by PL take-up of mothers.🟡

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

When exploring mechanisms, we find that PL take-up is associated with *no career costs* for peer fathers, which may push their coworkers to follow their example and take PL themselves

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

Lots of heterogeneity: effects are stronger in larger establishments, those with past PL use and those with higher levels of social capital.

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

Peer effects are present among mothers, too. 👩‍💻

However own-gender effects are stronger than cross-gender ones, indicating that peers more than the general firm environment influence our results.

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

We find that 1-year after the share of coworker fathers taking PL increases by 2.4% in response to a 10% increase in the share of peer fathers taking PL because of the reform. Effect persists up to 4 years.⬆️

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

For these establishments we measure PL take-up among “coworker” fathers - who were colleagues of peer fathers at the time of the reform but become first-time fathers *after* it ➡️avoid “reflection problem”🪞

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

We then focus on fathers in establishments. 👨‍💻

We measure their exposure to the reform by the ex-ante share of eligible “peer” fathers (i.e. share of 3-5 y.o. fathers over total fathers employed in establishment)

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

📈First stage result - The policy increased individual take-up of both fathers and mothers of 3-5 y.o. children relative to the pre-reform period and to parents of 0-2 y.o. children

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

How do we do that?

We exploit a reform in 🇮🇹 that increased parental leave (PL) generosity for parents of 3-5 year old children.👨‍🍼👩‍🍼

Before reform: no replacement rate 😢
After reform: 30% replacement rate 💰

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 10

Do coworkers taking parental leave influence your own decision to take it?

In a @cesifo.org new working paper with A. Casarico, @edoardodiporto.bsky.social & J. Kopinska, we find: yes, they do.

Thread below 🧵👇
#econsky

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢 The call for papers for the 2025 Banca d’Italia Gender Economics Workshop is now open!

📅 12 December | 📍 Banca d’Italia HQ, Rome

📝 Submit your paper by 13 July

www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizi...

#GenderEconomics #EconSky

Bank of Italy - Banca d'Italia Gender Economics Workshop - call for papers

The Banca d'Italia Gender Economics Workshop will be held on 12 December 2025 in Rome. The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for leading and emerging researchers in the field of gender economics...

www.bancaditalia.it

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Mar 14

“Exploring Gender Inequality: Firm Contribution and Policy Effects”

w/ A. Casarico

is now out at LSE PPR

The paper reviews the literature on firms’ contribution to the gender pay gap & on firm and coworker responses to family policies

ppr.lse.ac.uk/articles/117...

#EconSky

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

We have a new update on our paper

"One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap"

w/ @jarellanobover.com, N. Bianchi and M. Paradisi

Short thread🧵👇

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

Always forget to tag #EconSky!

Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

This and many other additional analyses can be found in the draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Comments welcome!

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One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap

<p>This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of younger workers, analyzing data from the U

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

The major update in the paper is showing with microdata for 🇮🇹 that firms with more workforce aging are those that witness the largest reductions in the gender pay gap, stemming from deteriorated opportunities for younger men, at least until the mid-1990s, when convergence stopped.

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

We rationalize this in a model in which workforce ageing generates negative career spillovers on younger workers.

▶️Top ranks in firms are increasingly more occupied by older workers.
▶️Younger men have more to lose as they were more represented in top jobs than younger women at baseline

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

In the paper we show that cohort dynamics are crucial to explain gender pay convergence in the labor mkt.

Convergence happened as
1️⃣ newer worker cohorts w/ lower-than-avg pay gaps replaced older ones w/ higher-than-avg gaps
2️⃣ younger men fared progressively worse at lab mkt entry

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Jan 15

We have a new update on our paper

"One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap"

w/ @jarellanobover.com, N. Bianchi and M. Paradisi

Short thread🧵👇

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Salvatore Lattanzio @salvatorelattanzio.bsky.social · Dec 27

Culture over-consumption (British Museum)

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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · Dec 9

L’attivismo social può minare la credibilità degli scienziati?

Spesso gli accademici usano i social media anche per partecipare senza intermediazioni al dibattito pubblico, manifestando opinioni politiche.

Con quali conseguenze? Che impressione ne trae il pubblico?
#EconSky

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