countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters … youngsters allocation of time to socializing and to reading and studying activities, with Italy standing out as the country where …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six … skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian best of youth, i.e. the best workers of the most …

This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six … skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …

aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries. We also give microeconometric evidence for Italy …

parental home. A second indicates how much labour market policies, targeted at lowering youth unemployment to some desired …

, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts …, where the aspiration to go to college is affected not only by the school type but also (in the case of Italy only) by … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …

Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to …

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 …