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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413274
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Shared Origins and Fertility : An Empirical Study for Italy
de Blasio, Guido; Omiccioli, Massimo - 2013
This paper makes an empirical analysis of the effect of a common origin within a couple on fertility. We use the Bank … of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine the fertility of a sample of Italian women and find …, family-level, and area-of-residence characteristics. We also find that the impact of homogamy on fertility is stronger for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150677
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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045838
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Cooperation against Capitalism’s Biases. Workers-Recuperated Enterprises in Italy during the Great Recession
Antonazzo, Luca - 2018
This paper analyzes the case of workers’ buyout, which has emerged with increasing evidence in Italy over the last ten years, in order to reflect on sustainable alternatives to the capitalist mode of production. Worker-recuperated bankrupted companies, generally defined as recovered factories,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110570
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074410
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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189825
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An exploratory study of populism : the municipality-level predictors of electoral outcomes in Italy
Levi, Eugenio; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
We present an exploratory machine learning analysis of populist votes at municipality level in the 2018 Italian general elections, in which populist parties gained almost 50% of the votes. Starting from a comprehensive set of local characteristics, we use an algorithm based on BIC to obtain a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140019
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Social Networks, Information and Health Care Utilization : Evidence from Undocumented Immigrants in Milan
Devillanova, Carlo - 2006
This paper uses a novel dataset and research design to examine the effects of information networks on immigrants' access to health care. The dataset consists of an unusually large sample of undocumented immigrants and contains a direct indicator of information networks - whether an immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058413
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Institutional Quality, Culture, and Norms of Cooperation : Evidence from a Behavioral Field Experiment
Cassar, Alessandra; D'Adda, Giovanna; Grosjean, Pauline A. - 2013
, and study the interaction of institutions and culture in sustaining economic exchange. 346 subjects in Italy and Kosovo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039079
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Governing migration : immigrant groups' strategies in three Italian cities - Rome, Naples and Bari
Crane, Kristine - 2004
influenced the patterns of these networks. The psychological or motivational element behind these groups' migration project is … also critical to their integration, and is often manifested on a group level. Keywords: Migration, Immigrant, Ethnic group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600116