Using matched employer-employee data for Italy and newly available information on sick
leave certificates, we study the effect of an exogenous increase in the length of the residual …

We use Australian panel data to examine the impact of retirement on individual locus of
control, a socio-emotional skill with substantial explanatory power for a broad range of life …

We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension
wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an …

We examine how the transition from work to retirement affects households' energy usage.
Our findings show that the transition to retirement has a notable impact on energy …

In times of decreasing fertility and increasing longevity, pension reforms raising the
retirement age have been a common response to increase the labor force participation …

This paper studies whether forced increases in the residual working life, determined by a
restrictive pension reform, induce additional training activities. By exploiting a sizable Italian …

This dissertation consists of five independent chapters contributing to the field of applied
economics. The first three chapters analyze workers' perceptions of the wage penalty …

This study delves into the financial implications of pension reforms raising the Minimum
Retirement Age (MRA) among middle-aged workers, leveraging the 2011 Italian Fornero …

This paper studies how the introduction of a municipality tax on real estates (ICI) in Italy has
affected local services. Introduced in 1993, the ICI increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian …