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How do tax incentives for high-skilled migrants affect income inequality? This paper examines Italy's preferential tax regime (2016–2022) using microsimulation methods to reveal the distributional consequences — across Gini coefficients, top income shares, and tax progressivity — of policies designed to attract mobile talent.

The Italian Econometric Association (SIdE-IEA) and FBK-IRVAPP are organizing a course on Panel Data for Causal Research Designs in Bertinoro, Italy. Designed for PhD students, researchers, and professionals, it covers panel data models, including Random and Fixed Effects, Two-way Fixed Effects as a bridge to Difference-in-Differences, Staggered and Block Designs, Synthetic Control Methods, and their combination with Difference-in-Differences. The course includes theoretical lectures, hands-on sessions using Stata, and applied econometrics exercises.