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Breaking the divide : can public spending on social infrastructure boost female employment in Italy?

Reljic, Jelena; Zezza, Francesco - 2024 - Draft paper

We contribute to the long-standing debate on the Italian North-South divide by assessing the impact of public spending on social infrastructure - including education, healthcare, childcare and social assistance - on the gender employment gap over the last two decades, using a PSVAR analysis....

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Labour Market Access, Family Responsibilities and Health Perception of Italian Women

Patimo, Raffaella - 2017

The aim of this paper is to highlight the determinants of female employment in Italy in recent years, when education, costumes, family composition and social and individual preferences for family and work have considerably changed from the past. Nevertheless, the difficulties Italian women still...

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Labor Market Issues in the Caribbean : Scope to Mobilize Employment Growth

Kandil, Magda - 2014

The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...

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The (Ir)Relevance of the Nru for Policy Making : The Case of Denmark

Sala, Hector - 2006

We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy decisions. We show that the … unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to frictional growth, a phenomenon that encapsulates the interplay between … empirical analysis and find that the NRU explains only 33% of the unemployment variation, while frictional growth accounts for …

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The Relevance and Economic Sustainability of Social Economy in Italy

Borzaga, Carlo; Carini, Chiara; Carpita, Maurizio; … - 2015

In many countries, the economic crisis has contributed to the increase of already-existing economic and social inequalities. These circumstances have contributed to the questioning of knowledge and conventional values, accelerating the need to rethink the roles of the different actors within the...

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