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Teacher personality and the perceived socioeconomic gap in student outcomes

Brunello, Giorgio; Crocè, Clementina; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2024

We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically significant gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' high school prospects with respect to...

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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The pathways to college

Agarwal, Lisha; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019

We estimate the effect of the high school curriculum (or track) on the returns to college using data from the Italian PLUS (Participation Labour and Unemployment Survey) survey. We find that college graduates with vocational high school are less likely to be employed than graduates with academic...

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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...

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Training subsidies and the wage returns to continuing vocational training : evidence from Italian regions

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Sonedda, Daniela - 2010

We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to 2005, we find that the marginal effect of one additional week of formal training on monthly earnings...

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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts

Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...

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The side effect of pension reforms on training : evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2013

Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform cohorts of private sector employees and estimate that adding one year to minimum retirement age...

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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European average, educational attainment is generally much lower...

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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra (contributor); … - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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Beyond additionality : are innovation subsidies counterproductive?

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011

two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from "doing better" as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …

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