Religion as a component of family background may transmit values that positively affect children's educational achievements. Nevertheless, in its conservative dimension religion hampers children's self-determination and may lead them not to invest in higher education. Notably religion may adapt...

This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends the existing literature in several directions. The theoretical model proposed here allows schooling choices to be independently influenced by both personal and social...

The aim of the paper is to combine the systemic approach to labour market institutions with the analysis of the role played by the organisational forms of the bargaining partners, which favour coordination both inter partes and intra partes, in order to characterise the 19 countries considered....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal link between government regulation of religion and the choice of investing in human and physical capital. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an analytical model with a government setting the output quota to transfer to...

In the view of comparative institutional analysis, economic systems are considered as coherent structures of interdependent institutions with a considerable explanatory power of economic performances. In this paper this approach is extended to the labor market. Differing from the current...

This report summarizes the findings of a research project using firm level data on Italian and Turkish manufacturing industries. In this project we study the dynamics of firm survival and growth, and the spillover effects from foreign-owned to domestic firms. First, we investigate the...

Sebbene gli attuali scenari recessivi abbiano portato a un ulteriore ampliamento del divario di sviluppo dell’economia del Mezzogiorno dalle regioni centro-settentrionali, vi è un comparto di attività - quello delle energie rinnovabili - che ha fatto registrare in quest’ultimi anni tassi...