Speaker: Mattia Filomena (Masaryk University)

Abstract

We study the determinants of economic collaboration in an evolutionary model of inherited time preWe investigate the impact of globalization on workplace accidents in the Italian manufacturing sector over the period 2008-2019. Our identification strategy exploits a local measure of trade exposure to China using lagged industrial composition of Italian provinces to map sector-specific changes in trade levels, and spatial and temporal variation in foreign-born residents’ province shares to test the impact of immigration. To identify the causal effect of globalization, we instrument the Italian trade measure with the trade exposure in other high-income countries. A further instrumental variable strategy based on historical co-national local settlements is then used for immigration. Our results inform the policy debate on the welfare effects of globalization adding new insights from different perspectives.