Salvatore Lattanzio Profile picture
Economist at the Bank of Italy | PhD @Cambridge_Uni | Research on labour, inequality and gender | Personal views only
Oct 9, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
My personal top-5 favorite graphs/exhibits from Claudia #Goldin papers

1. Gender pay gap is present in (almost) all occupations, even controlling for age, race and education. Why? Because of the "value placed on the hours and job continuity of workers"

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Image 2. Gender pay gap for MBA graduates is there at the beginning of labor market career, but it widens *a lot* over the life cycle, especially at the top.
"Labor supply factors explain most of the remaining gender gap in earnings"

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Oct 9, 2020 10 tweets 5 min read
🚨 New #COVID19-related WP 🚨

"The Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 on Labor Market Flows: Evidence from Administrative Data"

with @alecasarico.

So, what's been the impact of the pandemic on the labor mkt in 🇮🇹? #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

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[1/N] Image We use admin. data on a sample of contracts active in the first quarter of 2020 and, first, we show what categories of workers were more likely to be affected by sector shutdown.

Low-skill, male, and younger workers are over-represented in non-essential activities.

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Jun 3, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
È giusto protestare per un'immagine che - dopo tutto quello che si è detto sulla parità di genere e quello che si è scritto sull'impatto diverso di questa crisi sulle donne e sugli uomini - raffigura una donna con un bimbo in braccio e un uomo al pc? Sì, perché...👇 ...perché gli stereotipi di genere sono uno degli ostacoli che ancora ingombrano il cammino verso una vera parità di ruoli. Basti vedere questi due grafici, tratti dal paper di Marianne Bertrand su AEA P&P
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