Intergenerational mobility in education and income is affected by the influence of parents on children’s school choices. We assess if tracking students at the Secondary School level reduces or magnifies this influence by studying educational systems characterized by student tracking in two...

Germany can be taken as a reference case for reforming activities called for by the recent economic crisis. In this article we revise recent reforms in the labour market and in the educational sector. This reforms were effective in containing the unemployement, especialy of young people, without...

Germany can be taken as a reference case for reforming activities called for by the recent economic crisis. In this article we revise recent reforms in the labour market and in the educational sector. This reforms were effective in containing the unemployement, especialy of young people, without...

This paper investigates whether adult proficiency formation is affected by social environments. Using the Italian sample of the ALL survey conducted in 2003, which includes cohorts born between 1938 and 1988, we exploit temporal and regional variations in indicators of women empowerment to...

This paper proposes an estimate of the extent of opportunity inequality and of its determinants in a sample of European countries, based on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions conducted in 2005. Although the ranking among Northern European and Mediterranean countries is generally...

In this article we analyze the fulfilment of the 1948 Italian Republican Constitution regarding education. We verify that inequality in the highest degree of attained education has declined within cohorts and geographical areas. We also find a reduction of the impact of the parental background...

The paper examines how private investment responds to investment tax credit, enacted by Italy's Law 388/2000. To assess whether the program made investments possible that otherwise would not have been made, it exploits some features of the tax credit scheme, such as the fact that some Italian...