concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … coverage in Italy is scarce (12.7 percent versus the OECD average of 30 percent) and the service is “rationed”: each …

countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …

and Italy, taken as representative examples of continuous and isolated reforms, respectively. The estimated piecewise … compensation for the marked decrease in their first job durations. In Italy, employment stability of the new entrants of both sexes …

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … remains unexplained by differences in observed characteristics (except in Italy). Overall, results suggest that policy …