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Stop worrying and love the robot : an activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2021

This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots' applications at a high level of disaggregation makes it...

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Short-term labour market effects of COVID-19 and the associated national lockdown in Australia : evidence from Longitudinal Labour Force Survey

Guven, Cahit; Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020

(LFP) by 2.1%, increased unemployment by 1.1% and reduced weekly working hours by 1.1. The national lockdown decreased LFP … by 3.3%, increased unemployment by 1.7%, and decreased weekly working hours by 2.5. The probability of working on Fridays … unsuitable for remote work were hit the hardest in terms of unemployment. …

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Navigating the precarious path : understanding the dualisation of the Italian labour market through the lens of involuntary part-time employment

Cuccu, Liliana; Royuela, Vicente; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

This paper investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its impact on various socio-economic groups and adopting a spatial perspective. Our study tests the hypothesis that technological shifts, specifically routine biased technological...

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Intergenerational (im)mobility in Pakistan : is the social elevator broken?

Andlib, Zubaria; Sadiq, Maqsood; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

There is a large literature on intergenerational social and educational mobility in developed countries, but the evidence in developing countries is still scant In the current literature, household background has been predicted as a significant determinant of individuals' current and future...

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Covid-19 and working from home : toward a "new normal"?

Kosteas, Vasilios D.; Renna, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022

The COVID pandemic that took the world economy by surprise at the beginning of 2020 brought many drastic changes to the way individuals carry on their daily lives. One that will have long lasting effects, even after the spread of the virus is contained, is a shift towards flexible work...

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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers

Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020

transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …

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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?

Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019

In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …

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