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Does postponing minimum retirement age improve healthy behaviours before retirement? : evidence from middle-aged Italian workers

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Mazzarella, Gianluca - 2016

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The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater : Evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2021

We use data from a nationally representative survey of Italian graduates to study whether Alma Mater matters for employment and earnings three years after graduation. We find that the attended college does matter, and that college related differences are substantial both among and within regions...

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School Vouchers Italian Style

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2021

School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher...

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Diploma No Problem : Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021

Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …

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Training and the Density of Economic Activity : Evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2021

We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in opposite directions: on the one hand, the complementarity between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a...

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Labor Taxes and Wages : Evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Parisi, Maria Laura; Sonedda, Daniela - 2021

We study the empirical relationship between labor taxation and pretax wages in Italy. We find that higher tax …

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The Returns to Education in Italy : A New Look at the Evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021

Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education ? we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a … larger share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the …

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Beyond national institutions : labor taxes and regional unemployment in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationshipbetween labor taxes and unemployment varies across regions. In spite of similar national labor market institutions, we show that this relationship is significantly stronger in the highly industrialized North than in the...

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Teacher personality and the perceived socioeconomic gap in student outcomes

Brunello, Giorgio; Crocè, Clementina; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2024

We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically significant gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' high school prospects with respect to...

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Does work-based learning facilitate the school to work transition? : evidence from an Italian reform

Bernardi, Martino; Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2024

In 2015, school-work alternation programmes (alternanza scuola lavoro) became compulsory in all Italian high schools, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive feature of this reform was that the intensity of...

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