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Where do the brainy Italians go?
Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - 2008
researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268850
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Raising female employment : reflexions and policy tools
Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2003
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, and part-time jobs are policy instruments that are widely debated in policy circles. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261649
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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268285
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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers
Rettore, Enrico; Paggiaro, Adriano; Trivellato, Ugo - 2008
Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. It combines a 'passive' component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an 'active' component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268536
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Have labour market reforms at the turn of the millennium changed job durations of the new entrants? A comparative study for Germany and Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Villosio, … - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269568
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Unintended effects of national-based active labour market policies
Altavilla, Carlo; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto - 2009
Labour market policies settled at national level imply a one-size-fits-all labour market strategy. This strategy might not sufficiently take into account region-specific economic structures. In this paper we employ a panel factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) to evaluate whether active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271231
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The trend over time of the gender wage gap in Italy
Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - 2011
We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280659
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Diploma No Problem : Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2004
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262077
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School Vouchers Italian Style
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2005
School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262199
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Intergenerational persistence in educational attainment in Italy
Checchi, Daniele; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Leonardi, Marco - 2008
levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268574