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Employment protection, temporary contracts and firm-provided training: Evidence from Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2018
employment protection legislation (EPL) on firm-provided training using a regression discontinuity design. Our analysis … demonstrates that higher levels of EPL reduce firms’ incentives to invest in workers’ training. The number of trained workers … confounding factors (e.g., worker councils). The EPL effect on training is not mediated by different levels of investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055417
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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329088
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Re-Testing PISA Students One Year Later : On School Value Added Estimation Using Oecd-Pisa
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061949
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Re-testing PISA students one year later : on school value added estimation using OECD-PISA
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208551
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 161-175
We exploit presumably exogenous variation in the availability of college-educated workers at the province level produced by a reform that increased the supply of higher education to estimate human capital production externalities for Italian manufacturing firms. We show that when the potential...
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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233797
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Does the Choice of University Matter?
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2001
This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analyzed by specifying and estimating a subject-specific educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130905
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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2021
Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325075
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Does the Choice of University Matter? A Study of the Differences across UK Universites in Life Sciences Students' Degree Performance
Bratti, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2001
This paper investigates differences across UK universities in 1993 life sciences students' degree performance using individual-level data from the Universities' Statistical Record (USR). Differences across universities are analysed by specifying and estimating a subject- specific educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413017
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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709720