The effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on labour market outcomes

• Autores: Giorgio di Pietro, Antonio Mora Sánchez
• Localización: Documents de treball IEB, Nº. 41, 2011, 25 págs.
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Using Labour Force Survey individual-level data recently released by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) where information is for the first time at available at provincial level, this paper looks at the short-term effects of the L�Aquila earthquake on labour market outcomes. Our estimates are based on a difference-in-differences (DiD) strategy that compares residents of L�Aquila with residents of a control area before and after the earthquake. The empirical results suggest that while the earthquake had no significant effect on the employment-population ratio, it led to a modest, but significant, reduction in labour force participation. There is also evidence of significant heterogeneous effects by gender and level of education.