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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...

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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...

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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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Factor endowment and market size in EU-CEE trade : would human capital change the actual quality trade patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Earnings dynamics and inequality among men across 14 EU countries, 1994 - 2001 : evidence from ECHP

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

This paper analyses the dynamic structure of individual earnings across 14 EU countries over the period 1994-2001 using … relevant in the context of the changes that took place in the EU labour market policy framework after 1995 under the incidence …

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Equalizing or disequalizing lifetime earnings differentials? : earnings mobility in the EU: 1994 - 2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To … and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic assumption is that mobility measured over a horizon of 8 years is a good … Shorrocks index, but the overall conclusions are not altered. Based on the Shorrocks (1978) index men across EU have an …

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Policy, institutional factors and earnings mobility

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross …

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Sharp teeth or empty mouths? : revisiting the minimum wage bite with sectoral data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013

The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...

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