Aim of this paper is to shed light on how some determinants, especially in the spheres of family background, differently affect the heterogeneous category of self-employment across four transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic),...

This paper discusses a framework for the evaluation of accuracy of the Italian sec¬tion of EU-SILC data with focus on non-sampling errors related to several components of the to-tal non-re¬sponse at household level. Following a clas¬sical hierarchical approach, classes of quality indi¬cators...

The paper aims at investigating gender differentials in education and wage across four developed countries of southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain), taking into account the generational transmission of preferences and some peculiarities of gender equality policies implemented in...

The aim of this paper is to explore the main determinants of women’s job search propensity and the mechanism underlying the selection effect into labour markets. The analysis compares the European countries which share the lowest female activity rates with the well-developed economies of North...

The crucial aim of this paper is to investigate, in a generational perspective, the effects of specific dimensions of human capital on individuals earnings and earnings differentials across a selected set of six developed economies of Western Europe with structural differences in their formal...

In recent years, the occupational dynamics have brought in significant innovations in Italy, as the increased participation of women in the labour market, that have stimulated studies about the gender wage gap, concerning the different remuneration reserved to male and female workers. In this...

<em>The influence of social and economic factors on competencies of Italian students. A multilevel analysis of data PISA 2006</em> - This work aims to investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ scientific competencies. The "Programme for International Student...