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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries

Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021

Union countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia). Based on student-level data … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns,...

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Will it be a shecession? : the unintended influence of working from home on the gender wage gap related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021 - Version: January 2021

Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...

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Sometimes you cannot make it on your own : how household background influences chances of success in Italy

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021

In this paper, we explore channels by which household background determines an individual's educational and social opportunities in Italy. Our analysis relies on a rich dataset that contains data both on individuals and their real parents, as well as information on individuals' non-cognitive...

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. The standard linear model misses...

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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to understand the role of family background, but ignores the information contained in conditional variance. Using exceptionally rich data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence...

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Whither the evolution of the contemporary social fabric? : new technologies and old socio-economic trends

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

the processes of innovation and diffusion of what we could call "intelligent automation" are likely to change, or more … the ensuing impact on jobs, division of labour, distribution of knowledge, power, and control. Finally, we address some …

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The future of industrial policies in the new millennium : toward a knowledge-centered development agenda

Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: Industrial policy and development : the political …, (pp. 541-560). 2009

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Technological catching-up, sales dynamics and employment growth : evidence from China's manufacturing firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018

' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … innovation and patenting activities on employment growth appear to be negligible. …

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Technology and employment in a vertically connected economy : a model and an empirical test

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, M.; Virgillito, Maria Enrica; … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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