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Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alesina, Alberto; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Paola … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Flexible labor markets requires geographically mobile workers to be efficient. Otherwise, firms can take advantage of the immobility of workers and extract monopsony rents. In cultures with strong family ties, moving away from home is costly. Thus, individuals with strong family ties rationally...

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Returns to Migration, Education, and Externalities in the European Union

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Relatively little attention has been paid to the role that externalities play in determining the pecuniary returns to migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European Union (EU) for the period 1994-2001 in order to...

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Migrants’ International Transfers and Educational Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Albania

Cattaneo, Cristina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The present paper analyses the expenditure behavior of Albanian families. The objective is to cast some light upon the relationship between education expenditure and the volume of remittances, sent from abroad by household members. To assess the existence of an education enhancing effect of...

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Italian Schools and New Linguistic Minorities: Nationality Vs. Plurilingualism. Which Ways and Methodologies for Mapping these Contexts?

Bagna, Carla - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

According to the latest findings of the MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research), Alunni con cittadinanza non italiana 2004-2005 (MIUR, October 2005), 4.2% of the school population in Italy is made up of non-Italian citizens, with no reference to students who have one Italian parent...

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Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply

Gallipoli, Giovanni; Turner, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to … idiosyncratic shocks. Two puzzling findings associated to disability onset motivate our work: (1) the almost complete absence of … `added worker' effects within households and, (2) the fact that single agents' labor supply responses to disability shocks …

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Time-separable Utility, Leisure and Human Capital Accumulation: What New Implications for the Environment-Growth Nexus?

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Using a time-separable utility function where leisure is introduced through the disutility of working time and is … harmful for growth. A tighter environmental tax reduces the incentives to educate by increasing leisure time and lowers the … (1998) according to which, in the presence of leisure, the environmental tax does not affect human capital accumulation if …

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