This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …

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 …

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …

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 …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …

set in the metalworking industry with labor market histories of metalworkers drawn from Social Security records in Italy … evidence for earlier periods is mixed in Italy, the results do not support the view that the wage structure reflects labor …