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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312463
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The returns to education in Italy: A new look at the evidence
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 1999
education with respect to estimates based on OLS methods. We also show that adding family background variables to the set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608564
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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294324
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How (not) to Choose Peers in Studying Groups
Gall, Thomas; Amann, Roland - 2006
This paper analyzes social group formation when agents are subject to peer effects within groups increasing human capital and instantaneous utility. When agents are heterogeneous on two dimensions, ability and social skills, and monetary payments are not feasible the model predicts segregation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312300
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Gender Issue and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and North Africa
Minoia, Giulia - 2007
This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender … relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international … reach an improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management. Therefore, to investigate gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312486
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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime
Pautrel, Xavier - 2006
Using an overlapping generation model à la Blanchard (1985) with human capital accumulation, this article demonstrates that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312553
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School Quality and Family Background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003
family background. Parental education has had asymmetric effects, positive on attainment and negative on school returns …. Better school quality also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for individuals with poor family … in the production of individual human capital. When school quality and family background are substitutes, an increase of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325039
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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education
Brunello, Giorgio - 2001
Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608791
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On the complementary between education and training in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - 2001
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? Evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335678