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XXVII National Conference of Labour Economics

Seconda Università di Napoli - 27-28 September 2012

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Plenary Lecture: Diego Puga (Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies), Learning by Working in Dense Cities (joint with J. De la Roca)

Plenary Lecture: Francine Blau (Cornell University), The Transmission of Women’s Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations (joint with L.M. Kahn, A. Yung-Hsu Liu and K.L. Papps)

Plenary Lecture: Lawrence Kahn (Cornell University), Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture and, US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women (joint with F. Blau)

Session A

Session B

Session C 

Session D 

 

 

Session A

Session A1: Agglomeration Economies

Chair: Giulio Cainelli (Università di Padova)

  1. Massimiliano Agovino, A. Rapposelli (Università “G.D’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara), Agglomeration Externalities and Technical Efficiency in Italian Regions

  2. Roberto Basile (Seconda Università di Napoli), Cristiana Donati (Seconda Università di Napoli), Rosanna Pittiglio (Seconda Università di Napoli), Agglomeration Economies, Industry Structures and Employment Growth: Evidence from Semi-Parametric Geo-Additive Models

  3. Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio (Banca d’Italia), Gilles Duranton, William C. Strange (University of Toronto), Marshallian Labor Market Pooling: Evidence from Italy

  4. Donata Favaro (Università di Padova), Eniel Ninka, Margherita Turvani (University IUAV), Productivity in Innovation: The Role of Inventor Connections and Mobility

  5. Giuseppe Croce, Edoardo Di Porto, Emanuela Ghignoni (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Andrea Ricci (ISFOL), Workplace Training and Entrepreneurs Clusters:  Poaching vs Knowledge Spillovers

 

Session A2: Education and Skill Mismatch

Chair: Giuseppe Croce (Università di Roma La Sapienza)

  1. Floro Ernesto Caroleo (Università di Napoli “Parthenope”), Francesco Pastore (Seconda Università di Napoli), Overeducation at a Glance. Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data

  2. Gianfranco De Simone (Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli), Render unto Primary the Things which are Primary’s. Inherited and Fresh Learning Divides in Italian Lower Secondary Education

  3. Antonio Di Paolo, Ferran Mañé (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Determinants and Consequences of Qualification and Skills Mismatch Among Recent PhD Graduates

  4. Stefano Staffolani, Claudia Pigini (Università Politecnica delle Marche), Enrolment Decision and University Choice of Italian Secondary School Graduates

Session A3: Unemployment

Chair: Marco Guerrazzi (Università di Genova)

  1. Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno), Giuseppe Mastromatteo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Exploring the Cross-Country Inequality-Employment Trade-off. A Production Possibility Frontier Approach

  2. Gianna C. Giannelli (Università di Firenze), Ursula Jaenichen, Thomas Rothe (IAB), Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany

  3. Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo (Banco de Portugal), Unemployment Insurance: A Life Vest of Re-employment Wages

Session A4: The Gender Wage Gap 

Chair: Elisabetta Addis (Università di Sassari)

  1. Ezgi Kaya (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Gender Wage Gap Trends in Europe: The Role of Occupational Allocation and Changing Skill Prices

  2. Roberto Leombruni (Università di Torino), Michele Mosca (Laboratorio Revelli), The Lifetime Gender Gap in Italy. Does the Pension System Countervail Labour Market Outcomes?

  3. Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Matteo Picchio (Ghent University, Belgium), The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy

  4. Blaise Melly (Brown University), Giulia Santangelo (Università di Roma La Sapienza), The Evolution of the Gender Wage Gap: a Change in Change Model

Session A5 : Bargaining

Chair: Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Cassino)

  1. Peter Ellguth, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Jens Stegmaier (IAB), Wage Bargaining in Germany. The Role of Works Councils and Opening Clauses

  2. Paola Gritti, Riccardo Leoni (Università di Bergamo), The Impact on Wages of Generic Competencies, Psychological Capital, New Work Practices and Digital Technologies

  3. Alessia Matano (Universitat de Barcelona), Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Cassino), The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution

  4. Claudio Lucifora (Università Cattolica), Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo), Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Italy

 

 

Session A6 : Labour Markets in Developing Countries

Chair: Gianna Claudia Giannelli (Università di Firenze)

  1. Yuhao Ge (Renmin University of China), Hartmut Lehmann (Università di Bologna), The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China

  2. Paula Herrera-Idárraga (University of Barcelona), Enrique López-Bazo (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Elisabet Motellón (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Education - Occupation Mismatching and Labor Market Segmentation in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case

  3. Niall O’Higgins (Università di Salerno), Roma in the Labour Market in CSEE

 

 

Session B

Session B1: Regional unemployment dynamics, worker reallocation and place-base policy

Chair: Rita De Siano (Università di Napoli Parthenope)

  1. Monica Andini, Guido de Blasio (Banca d’Italia), Local Development that Money Can’t Buy: Italy’s Contratti di Programma

  2. Carlo Lucarelli (ISTAT), Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza), Dynamic and Performance of the Italian Labour Market

  3. Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Francesco Pastore (Seconda Università di Napoli), Is there a Southern-sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy

 

Session B2: Gender and Households

Chair: Marco Leonardi (Università di Milano)

  1. Tindara Addabbo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia ), Randi Kjeldstad (Statistics Norway), Household Affiliation Among Young Adult Women and Men in Italy and Norway: The Significance of Work, Culture, and Money

  2. Lia Pacelli, Silvia Pasqua (Università di Torino), Claudia Villosio (LABORatorio Riccardo Revelli), Labour Market Penalties of Mothers: the Role of Reconciliation Policies

  3. Andrea Bentancor (ComunidadMujer and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.), Virginia Robano (The George Washington University). Part-time Premium Enigma: An Assessment of the Chilean Case

 

Session B3: Motivation and Trust

Chair: Riccardo Leoni (Università di Bergamo)

  1. Alberto Chilosi (Università di Pisa), Stakeholder Protection, Varieties of Capitalism, and Long-Term Unemployment

  2. Julie Moschion, Domenico Tabasso (University of Melbourne), Trust: the Role of Cultural Background, Social and Economic Conditions

  3. Alessandro Fedele (Libera Università di Bolzano), Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Cassino), Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!

 

Session B4: Flexicurity  

Chair: Giuliana Parodi (Università “G. D’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara)

  1. Giovanni S.F. Bruno (Università Bocconi), Floro Ernesto Caroleo (Università di Napoli Parthenope), Orietta Dessy (Università Cattolica di Milano), Flexicurity and Multi-dimensional Job Satisfaction in Italy: A Comparison of Different Contract Arrangements

  2. Niall O'Higgins (Università di Salerno), Youth Labour Markets During the Great Recession

  3. Gabriele Mazzolini, Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo), Is Flexicurity Good in Bad Times? Evidence on workers security in Europe

 

Session C

Session C1: Gender, Heterogeneity and Wages

Chair: Maria De Paola (Università della Calabria)

  1. Andrea Garnero (Paris School of Economics), Francois Rycx (Université Libre de Bruxelles), The Heterogeneous Effects of Workplace Diversity on Wages and Productivity

  2. Mario Centeno, Claudia Duarte, Alvaro A. Novo (Banco de Portugal), The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Low-wage and Young Workers: Employment and Match Evidence

  3. Yolanda Pena-Boquete (University of Vigo), Diana Pérez-Dacal (University of Santiago de Compostela), Effects of Tourism Wages and Employment for the Spanish Regions: Seasonality versus Tourism Specialization

  4. Manuela Deidda (CRENoS), Adriana Di Liberto (Università di Cagliari and CRENoS), Marta Foddi (CRENoS), Giovanni Sulis (Università di Cagliari and CRENoS), Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women’s Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach

 

Session C2: Policies

Chair: Federica Origo  (Università di Bergamo)

  1. Bruno Anastasia, Gianluca Emireni (Veneto Lavoro), F. Vanin (Regione del Veneto), Between Levelling out and Polarization of Individual Incomes. An Analysis on Tax Return Micro Data

  2. Rossella Bardazzi (Univeristà di Firenze), Silvia Duranti (IRPET), Atypical Contracts and Italian Firms’ Labour Productivity

  3. Roberto Leombruni (Università di Torino), Adriano Paggiaro, Ugo Trivellato (Università di Padova), Per un pugno di euro. Storie di ordinaria disoccupazione

 

Session C3: Disability

Chair: Gianluigi Coppola (Università di Salerno)

  1. Guido Gay, Federico Russo (Eupolis Lombardia), Informative Prospectus: a New Source of Data for Studying Employment of Disabled People and Protected Categories

  2. Miguel A. Malo (University of Salamanca), Ricardo Pagán (University of Málaga), Hiring Workers with Disabilities when a Quota Requirement Exists: The Relevance of Firm's Size

  3. Tindara Addabbo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Jaya Krishnakumar (University of Geneva), Elena Sarti (Fondazione Marco Biagi - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Does Disability Discourage? An Empirical Analysis of the Disabled Labour Force in Italy

  4. Giuliana Parodi, Dario Sciulli (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Disability and Social Exclusion Dynamics in Italian Households

 

Session C4: Job flows and worker flows

Chair: Hartmut Lehmann (Università di Bologna)

  1. Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica di Milano), Marco Leonardi (Università di Milano), Earnings Instability and Tenure

  2. Fabio Berton (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Francesco Devicienti, Lia Pacelli (Università di Torino), Human Capital Accumulation in Temporary Jobs: Specific or General?

  3. Francesca Sgobbi (Università di Brescia), Inter-firm Mobility and Wages in the Italian ICT Industry

 

Session D

Session D1: Education

Chair: Justina Fischer (University of Oradea)

  1. Carmen Aina (Università degli Studi Piemonte Orientale), Francesco Pastore (Seconda Università di Napoli), Delayed Graduation and Overeducation: A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis

  2. Corrado Andini (Universidade da Madeira), Does the Observed Return to Schooling Converge to the Potential one? Evidence Based on a Dynamic Mincer Equation with Individual Unobserved Heterogeneity

  3. Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici (Università del Piemonte Orientale), To Stay or To Move? Freshmen and University Accessibility in Italy

  4. Michela Ponzo (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Vincenzo Scoppa (Università della Calabria), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Teaching Evaluations, Beauty and Abilities

  5. Antonio Scognamillo (Università di Firenze), Democratization of Higher Education and Labour Market Mismatch: The Case of Italy

 

Session D2: Labour supply

Chair: Tindara Addabbo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

  1. Anna De Paoli, Mariapia Mendola (Università di Milano Bicocca), Does International Migration Increase Child Labor?

  2. Gianna Claudia Giannelli (Università di Firenze), Lucia Mangiavacchi, Luca Piccoli (University of the Balearic), Where is Dad? May be at the Bar! The Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Intra-household Time Allocation

  3. Martina Lavagnini, Antonella Mennella (Università Roma Tre), Decent Work in Italy

  4. Annalisa Cristini, Federica Origo, Sara Pinoli (Università di Bergamo), The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One

  5. Francesco Pastore (Seconda Università di Napoli), Simona Tenaglia (ISFOL), Ora et non labora? A test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

 

Session D3: Migration

Chair: Maria Rosaria Carillo (Università di Napoli Parthenope)

  1. Fausto Galli, Giuseppe Russo (Università di Salerno). Immigration Policy and Long-Run Assimilation

  2. Effrosyni Adamopoulou (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Ezgi Kaya (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), To Leave or Not to Leave? Peers and the Decision to Leave the Parental Home

  3. Valentina Bosetti, Cristina Cattaneo, , Elena Verdolini (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei), Migration, Cultural Diversity and Innovation: A European Perspective

  4. Simone Schueller (IZA Bonn), Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

 

Session D4: Evaluation

Chair: Stefano Staffolani (Università Politecnica delle Marche)

  1. Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa (Università della Calabria), The Effectiveness of Remedial Courses in Italy: A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

  2. Domenico Lisi (Università di Catania), Cross-Sectors Skill Intensity and Temporary Employment

  3. Miguel Á. Malo (Universidad de Salamanca), Begoña Cueto (Universidad de Oviedo), Temporary Contracts across Generations: Long-term Effects of a Labour Market Reform at the Margin

  4. Maria Luisa Maitino, Marco Mariani (IRPET), Fabrizia Mealli (Università di Firenze), Nicola Sciclone (IRPET), What Kind of Training Works for the Unemployed and First-time Job Seekers? Differential Effects of a Regional Program

  5. Anton Nivorozhkin, Joachim Wolff (Institute for Employment Research), Give them a Break! Did Activation of Young Welfare Recipients Overshoot in Germany? (A Regression Discontinuity Analysis)

 

Session D5: Macro

Chair: Roberto Leombruni (Università di Torino)

  1. Marco Guerrazzi (Università di Genova), Involuntary Unemployment And Efficiency-Wage Competition Competition

  2. Giulio Piccirilli (Universitas Mercatorum and Università Cattolica di Milano), Labour Market Performance and the Quality of Industrial Relations

  3. Bernhard Schmidpeter (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Wage and Employment Polarization in Germany. Is there Evidence?

  4. Misbah Tanveer Choudhry (University of Groningen), Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia), Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia), Key Determinants of Youth Unemployment in OECD Countries

  5. Edoardo Di Porto (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Leandro Elia (Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit, European Commission), Cristina Tealdi (IMT-Lucca), The Emersion Effect: an Analysis on Labor Tax Evasion in Italy

Session D6: Gender

Chair: Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno)

  1. Karolina Goraus (Warsaw University), Gender Wage Gap in Poland – Can It Be Explained by Differences in Observable Characteristics?

  2. Rosa Giaimo, Giovanni Luca Lo Magno (Università di Palermo), Measuring Wage Discrimination According to an Expected Utility Approach

  3. Melchor Fernández (University of Santiago de Compostela), Yolanda Pena-Boquete (Universty of Vigo), Could Gender Wage Discrimination Explain Regional Differences in Productivity?

  4. Nabanita Datta Gupta (Aarhus University), Mette Lausten (The Danish National Centre for Social Research), Dario Pozzoli (Aarhus University), Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning