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Mental health and working conditions in European countries

Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010

Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...

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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010

The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...

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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2003

In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...

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

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2004

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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School Vouchers Italian Style

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2005

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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Intergenerational persistence in educational attainment in Italy

Checchi, Daniele; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Leonardi, Marco - 2008

levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …

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Wage effects of recruitment methods: the case of the Italian social service sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - 2008

volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The …

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Centralized wage determination and regional unemployment differences: the case of Italy

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2008

This paper addresses the problem of the dualism of the Italian economy, particularly of its labor market. Although the Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North, which represents two thirds of the whole economy, is...

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Does the expansion of higher education increase the equality of educational opportunities? Evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Blasio, Guido de - 2008

opportunities. It examines Italy's experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range …

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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