Family background can influence offspring earnings in two ways: conditioning their educationalattainments (indirect effect) and circumscribing their opportunities in the labour market, independentlyfrom their educational attainment (direct effect). In this paper, following a multi-steps...

The trend in the earnings distribution can be analysed by means of adequate longitudinal datasets or repeated cross-sectional surveys. Particularly useful for this purpose in the case of Italy are the data assembled in the archives managed by inps (the Italian social security institution), which...

This paper investigates the influence of parental education onthe returns to experience of italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individualworking histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parentaleducation increases...

The Italian labour market is usually held to be characterised by strong rigidities in defence of open-ended employees and by a high degree of segmentation at the expense of the workers, mostly young, employed on atypical contracts. It is not, however, always clear how the concepts of rigidity...