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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...

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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 …

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Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2004

This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ?new economic geography? model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it...

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...

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Electoral rules and politicians' behavior: a micro test

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 2008

Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians' rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House of Representatives, which allow us to sidestep the...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Wage effects of recruitment methods: the case of the Italian social service sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - 2008

volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The …

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Centralized wage determination and regional unemployment differences: the case of Italy

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2008

This paper addresses the problem of the dualism of the Italian economy, particularly of its labor market. Although the Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North, which represents two thirds of the whole economy, is...

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