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Students� competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual school�s effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in competencies over time, i.e. value-added measures. Using...
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Italian Abstract: L'Italia ha pochi laureati nel confronto internazionale, perché più bassa è la probabilità di avviare gli studi universitari e più bassa è anche quella di completarli. Nell'ultimo decennio le immatricolazioni sono calate, nonostante la ripresa degli ultimi due anni. Vi ha...
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Italian Abstract: L'indagine PISA 2012 includeva alcuni test anche in formato digitale, negli ambiti di matematica, lettura e problem solving. In queste prove, l'Italia ha riportato risultati più lusinghieri di quelli delle prove cartacee tradizionali. Tale risultato non è frutto di...
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Italian Abstract: L'obiettivo di questo lavoro è di verificare la coerenza del quadro complessivo che emerge da due diverse rilevazioni sugli apprendimenti degli studenti italiani (PISA e RN-Invalsi) svoltesi nello stesso anno (2012). Specialmente concentrando l'attenzione sulla parte in comune...
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Italian Abstract: PISA 2012 ha consentito per la prima volta di misurare, a livello internazionale, l'alfabetizzazione finanziaria dei quindicenni. Per l'Italia, il quadro che ne emerge è negativo, con un ritardo medio in financial literacy (FL) di circa il 7 per cento rispetto alla media OCSE....
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Tertiary education attainment of italian labour force, particularly in the manufacturing industry, shows empirically a large gap with respect to the other OECD countries, although human capital growth has been increasingly addressed as one of the main channel towards productivity, competitive...
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The paper presents a growth accounting exercise for the Italian economy over the last twenty years to assess the role of primary inputs and total factor productivity. The exercise was run at both the aggregate and the disaggregated level. For the first time in Italy it used a measure of capital...
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Given the deep economic and social differences of the Italian territories, the aim of the paper is to examine if there is a relationship between the territorial features of the Italian provinces and the school participation of young immigrants. The analysis focuses on the education experiences...
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This paper aims to analyze the Italian University’s physical and human cognitive assets. First we focus on the continuous reductions in public funding (CNVSU, 2011; OECD, 2010) that constrained the Italian university to develop 'entrepreneurial skills', in other words due to the lack of...
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As well known, human capital plays a crucial role both for private and social wellbeing. Notwithstanding, measurement of human capital is not univocally defined in empirical analyses, since different indicators and methods are employed and, sometimes, the proxies seem to be not very efficient...
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