C1. Labour Market Evolution
Chair: Gianna Claudia
Giannelli (Università di Firenze)
L. Cappellari (Università
Cattolica di Milano), M. Leonardi (Università di Milano),
Tenure and Earnings Instability in Italy
M. Centra (Isfol),
Il raccordo
tra vecchia e nuova serie nella rilevazione Istat sulle forze di lavoro:
una proposta basata su tecniche di calibrazione
U. Muehlberger (Vienna
University of Economics), S. Pasqua (Università di
Torino),
Workers on the Border
between Employment and Self-Employment
R. Gatto e S. Loriga
(ISTAT), Quanto hanno lavorato gli italiani durante gli anni '90?
C2. Macroeconomics of the Labour
Market
Chair: Paolo Piacentini (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
M. Guerrazzi (Università
di Pisa),
Nominal
Wage Indexation and Real Wage Dynamics
B. Molinari (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra), F. Turino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra),
The Role of
Advertising in the Aggregate Economy: the Working-Spending Cycle
R. Jiménez-Rodríguez (University
of Salamanca), G. Russo (Università di
Salerno),
Institutional
Rigidities and Employment Rigidity on the Italian Labour Market
C3. Job Quality and Job
Satisfaction
Chair: Riccardo Leoni
(Università di Bergamo)
G.C. Cainarca (Università
di Genova), F. Sgobbi (Università
di Brescia),
Changing Workplaces,
Individual Performance and Work Satisfaction.
An Investigation on Italian
Employees
F. Origo (Università di
Bergamo), L.Pagani (Università di Milano Bicocca),
Is Work Flexibility a
Stairway to Heaven? The Story Told by Job Satisfaction in Europe
A. Salvatori (University of Warwick),
Employment Protection Legislation and the
Quality of Jobs: Evidence on Job Satisfaction
C4. Institutions, Labour
Market Policies
Chair: Leonello
Tronti (ISTAT)
A. Vaona (Università di Verona),
The Duration of
Union Membership: an Empirical Study
M. Rajeev
(Institute for Social and Economic Change),
Contract Labour Act in
India: A Pragmatic View
G. Croce, M. Tancioni (Università di Roma La Sapienza),
Disentangling
Employers’ and Workers’ Choices Behind Training Participation in Italy
M. Tonin (Stockholm
University), The Effects of the Minimum Wage in an Economy with Tax
Evasion
C5. Matching and Job Search
Theory
Chair: Stefano Staffolani
(Università Politecnica delle Marche)
I. Agur (European
University Institute), How Do Heterogenous Wage Expectations Affect
Unemployment?
M. Bagüés (University Carlos III),
M. Sylos Labini (University of
Alicante) Do
On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The impact of AlmaLaurea on
University-to-Work Transition
L. Bonaventura, A. Consoli, M. Richiardi,
S. Spagano (Università di
Bologna),
Politics and the Labor
Market: Why Unemployment is so High in the South of Italy
M. Richiardi (LABORatorio R.
Revelli), D. Contini (Università di Torino),
Active and Passive
Policies Against Poverty with Decreasing Employability
C6.
Wages - Macro and Micro Analysis
Chair: Lorenzo Cappellari
(Università Cattolica di Milano)
P. Buonanno (University of
California Berkeley),
Long-term Effects of
Conscription: Lessons from the UK
T. Addabbo (Università di
Modena e Reggio Emilia), D. Favaro (Università di Padova),
Education and Gender
Wage Differentials in Italy
G. Rose (Birkbeck
College, London), Skill Bias in Italy: a Gauss-Newton non Linear
Regression Analysis
L.G.
Scorzafave, E. Toldo Pazello (FEA-USP/RP-Brazil),
Using
Normalized Equation to Solve the Indetermination Problem of the
Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition: An Application to the Gender Wage Gap in
Brazil
C7.
Labour Supply
Chair: Tindara
Addabbo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
D. Haardt
(University of Essex), Older Couples' Labour Market Reactions to Family
Disruptions
L. Pacelli, S. Pasqua (Università
di Torino), C. Villosio (R&P),
What Does the
Stork Bring to Women Working Career
C8.
Unemployment
Chair: Gianna Claudia Giannelli
(Università di Firenze)
M. Centeno, A. Novo (Banco de Portugal),
Heterogeneity of the Unemployment Insurance System: Lazyness or Simply
Income Effects?
B. Contini (Università di
Torino), A. Poggi (LABORatorio R.
Revelli),
Employability of Young Italian Males after a Jobless Period, 1989-1998
C9.
Education and Training
Chair:
Floro Ernesto Caroleo (Università di Napoli "Parthenpe")
M. Battisti (Luiss Guido Carli),
Estimating
Human Capital’s Returns in a Segmented Labour Market through Mixture
Regressions: an Application for the Italian Labour Market
R. Gatto e A. Spizzichino
(ISTAT), Titoli di studio e mercato del lavoro: nuovi dati storici dalla
Rilevazione Istat sulle Forze di Lavoro
P. Naticchioni (Università di
Roma “La Sapienza”), A. Ricci (Università di Roma
“Tor Vergata”), E. Rustichelli (ISFOL),
Returns to Education
and Changes in Wage Structure: is there anUnskilled Bias Technological
Change in Italy
D. Pozzoli (Università Cattolica
di Milano),
High Schools and Labour Market Outcomes: Italian Graduates, 1995
C10.
Human Capital, Education and
Training
Chair: Mario Biaigoli
(Università di Parma)
M.F. Cracolici (Università di
Palermo), M. Cuffaro (Free University of
Amsterdam), R. Lima (Università di
Palermo), Il Capitale Sociale (nella sua
relazione con il Capitale Umano): uno schema teorico di riferimento e
una proposta di misura
M. Bratti (Università
di Milano), C. Broccolini, S. Staffolani
(Università Politecnica delle
Marche),
Is ‘3+2’ Equal to 4?
University Reform and Student Academic Performance in Italy
G. Gay (IReR - Istituto Regionale
di Ricerca della Lombardia), Giudizi scolastici, apprendimenti e
genere: quali relazioni?
C11.
Labour Market Flexibility
Chair: Leonello Tronti (ISTAT)
F. Berton, P. Garibaldi (Università
di Torino),
Workers and Firm
Sorting into Temporary Jobs
A.H. Hallett
(Vanderbilt University), C. Richter
(Klagenfurt University), X. Chen (Loughborough University),
Have Europe’s Labour
Markets Become More Flexible? An Exercise in Measuring the Relative
Flexibility of Wages across Countries and Time
F. Lucidi (Università di Roma
"La Sapienza"),
Is there a Trade-Off
between Labour Flexibility and Productivity Growth?
Preliminary Evidence from Italian
Firms
M. Picchio (Università
Politecnica delle Marche),
Wage Differentials and
Temporary Jobs in Italy
D. Sciulli (Università degli
Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"),
Making the Italian
Labor Market More Flexible: an Evaluation of the Treu Reform
C12.
Regional Labour Markets
Chair: Lorenzo Cappellari
(Università Cattolica di Milano)
N. Das
(International Institute of Population Sciences, India),
Analysis of the
Movements of the Urban Informal Workforce in India During 1981-91
P. Ordine, G. Rose
(Università della Calabria),
Bank Loans and
Employment in Italian Firms
F. Devicienti (Università di
Torino), A. Maida (LABORatorio R. Revelli),
L. Pacelli (Università di
Torino),
The
Italian Wage Curve Resurrected after the 1993 Labour Market Reforms
R. Hujer (J.W.
Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main), S.L. Thomsen (ZEW) and
C. Zeiss (J.W. Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main), The
Effects of Training Measures on the Individual Unemployment Duration in
West Germany