sizeable, considering the very low returns to higher education in Italy reported in previous studies. -- university …-to-work transition ; delayed graduation ; overeducation ; human capital theory ; screening hypothesis ; earnings equations ; Italy …

banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it … increases the probability they will engage in R&D. -- banks ; financial development ; innovation ; R&D ; investment …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and … suggest an assumption on the dependence structure between risks which is milder than what conventional duration models assume …

the hypothesis of positive duration dependence at the beginning of the transition and slightly negative thereafter … shortening the transition. Originality: Despite the duration of the STWT is one of the most important indicators to measure the …-linear duration dependence. Furthermore, they extend the analysis by including student-workers who attended a vocational path of …

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment …

unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability …

the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh … jobs are taken up later within the unemployment spell. -- marginal employment ; unemployment duration ; job search …

-of-events approach, we estimate multivariate discrete time duration models taking selection based on both observed and unobserved … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to …

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of …