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A randomized evaluation of an Italian labor market integration program for asylum seekers shows significant success: employment rates increased by 10 percentage points (30% above baseline) over 18 months through personalized mentoring and job placement. The program improved job quality, facilitated formal employment transitions via subsidized internships, and enhanced broader socioeconomic integration including language skills and social networks.

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.

This seminar explores how workers across 176 occupations perceive Large Language Models—as opportunity or threat—and how these views shape policy preferences. Through a cross-national survey experiment, it explores whether exposure to AI capabilities influences support for economic redistribution, labor protections, and other policy responses to automation.