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Will it be a shecession? : the unintended influence of working from home on the gender wage gap related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021 - Version: January 2021

Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...

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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 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...

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More insecure and less paid? : the effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution

Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018

This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap, over the entire wage distribution, between secure and insecure workers on the basis of perceived job insecurity. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on...

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The returns to education and the wage effect from overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago : a pseudo-panel approach

Doon, Roshnie; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

Having highly educated workers can be beneficial for organizations in terms of innovation and problem-solving capabilities, however when underpaid and underemployed, overeducated workers may experience feelings of frustration and stagnation as they are unable to fully utilize their skills and...

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All that glitters is not gold : effects of working from home on income inequality at the time of COVID-19

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020 - Preliminary draft, May2020

limiting people mobility freedom in order to contain the infection spread. Consequently, working from home (WFH) procedures … inequality among Italian employees. Specifically, a change from low to high WFH attitude would determine a 10% wage premium on …

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Routine biased technological change and wage inequality : do workers' perceptions matter?

Vannutelli, Silvia; Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco - 2021

social changes like job and wage polarization. In this paper we investigate the wage inequality between routine and non … account workers' perceptions when analyzing determinants of wage inequality. Overall, we confirm that, after leading to job …

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Who lost the most? : distributive effects of COVID-19 pandemic

Aina, Carmen; Brunetti, Irene; Mussida, Chiara; … - 2021

This paper investigates what happened to the wage distribution in Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows which categories of workers and economic sectors have suffered more than others and to what extent both the actual level of smart-working and the ability to Working...

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BrExit or BritaIn : is the UK more attractive to supervisors? : an analysis of wage premium to supervision across the EU

Biagetti, Marco; Giangreco, Antonio; Leonida, Leone; … - 2020

. We find that, by compensating supervisory positions according to the wage, the WPS increases wage inequality across most …

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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates : the role of personality traits

Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022

It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and...

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From the lockdown to the new normal : an analysis of the limitations to individual mobility in Italy following the Covid-19 crisis

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020

Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion … of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between … individual mobility in Italy. By using a spatial discontinuity approach, we show that these measures were effective in that they …

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