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children under fifteen. The analysis refers to a particular area, the province of Modena, one of the richest in Italy, with …
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The aim of this paper is to explain the economic causes and consequences of the sharp decline in Italy’s fertility rate …-earner family in order to pass the threshold for a decent standard of living, especially when there are children. The main … consequence of the decline in fertility in Italy has been a dramatic increase in the proportion of elderly dependent members of …
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We study the role of human capital in the restructuring of the Italian economy. The share of university graduates in the population has long been far lower in Italy (12 per cent in 2007) that in the rest of Europe (24 per cent). The 3+2 reform of Italian degree programmes has significantly...
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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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Some studies that investigate the effects of migration flows –based on Solow‟s growth theory (1956) and considering the specific contribution of the human capital transfer of migrant workers (Mankiw e al. 1992; Dolado e al. 1994, Piras, 1996) –allow to evaluate the negative...
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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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commuting times, those with children and those in the younger age groups have a higher propensity to work remotely, confirming …
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Assembling information from several sources and a drawing on specially designed new survey, this paper finds that the shortfall in the supply of child care facilities remains large with respect to potential demand but is less severe with respect to the effective demand by households in Italy....
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