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Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Checchi, Daniele - 2008

It is commonly believed that accumulation of human capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be...

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...

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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...

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Re-Testing PISA Students One Year Later : On School Value Added Estimation Using Oecd-Pisa

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014

Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...

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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy : The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2021

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices … on children choices. Using data from a cross-country survey (PISA 2003), we study the impact of parental education on …) translates into greater dependence from parental background. These effects are reinforced when moving to post-secondary education …

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Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD

Checchi, Daniele; Garcia-Peñalosa, C. - 2021

We examine the determinants of differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the OECD. The Gini coefficient of personal incomes can be expressed as a function of the wage differential, the labour share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market...

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The Effects of Schooling on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from Education Expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023

We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...

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