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The effect of the l’Aquila earthquake on labour market outcomes Di Pietro, Giorgio Mora Corral, Antoni J. Aquila (Itàlia) Catàstrofes naturals Mercat de treball Política d'ocupació Natural disasters Manpower policy Labor market 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. 2017-10-13T13:50:01Z 2017-10-13T13:50:01Z 2011 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions IEB Working Paper 2011/41 [WP E-IEB11/41] cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Di Pietro et al., 2011 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Institut d’Economia de Barcelona IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers