Session A1: Social interactions in education

Chair: Michele Pellizzari (Università Bocconi)

1. Effrosyni Adamopoulou (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Peer Effects in Young Adults’ Marital Decisions

2. Giacomo De Giorgi (Stanford University), Michele Pellizzari (Università Bocconi), Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Session A2: Temporary employment

Chair: Eliana Viviano (Banca d'Italia)

1. Giulia Santangelo (Università  di Roma La Sapienza), Do Temporary Contracts Cause Wage Discrimination? A Quantile Treatment Effect Analysis for Europe

2. Matteo Picchio, Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University), Temporary Employment and Firm-Sponsored Training

3. Francesca Lotti, Eliana Viviano (Banca d'Italia), Why Hiring Temporary Workers?

Session A3: Human Capital   

Chair: Stefano Staffolani (Università Politecnica delle Marche)

1. Giulio Bosio (Università di Milano), Chiara Noè (University of Cergy-Pointoise), Higher Education Expansion, Human Capital Externalities and Wages: Italian Evidence within Occupation

2. Cinzia Graziani, Silvia Loriga, Alessandro Martini, Andrea Spizzichino (ISTAT), Il mercato del lavoro in Italia dal 1977: la ricostruzione dei principali indicatori

3. Elsa Fornero (Università di Torino), Agnese Romiti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Mariacristina Rossi (Università di Torino), Does Home Ownership Crowd Out Investment in Children’s Human Capital?

Session A4: Macro 1 

Chair: Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia)

1. Catia Montagna (University of Dundee), Antonella Nocco (Università del Salento), Trade Costs, International Competition, and Competitive Selection: The Role of Unionisation and Inter-country Asymmetries

2. Katrin Olafsdottir (Reykjavik University), Estimating a Model of Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector

3. Francesco Bartolucci (Università di Perugia), Misbah T. Choudhry (University of Groningen), Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia), Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia), Financial Crises and Labour Market: Beyond the Okun’s Law

Session A5 : Migration 1

Chair: Giuseppe Russo (Università di Salerno)

1. Carlo Dell’Aringa (Università Cattolica), Claudio Lucifora, Laura Pagani (Università di Milano Bicocca), A “Glass-ceiling” Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

2. Guido de Blasio, Alessio D'Ignazio (Banca d’Italia), The Impact of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence From the Italian Real Estate Market

3. Moritz Bonn (Universität Siegen), Does High Skilled Immigration Harm Low Skilled Employment and Overall Income?

Session B1: Social interactions and the labour market

Chair: Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno)

1. Anna Zaharieva (University of Bielefeld), Social Welfare and Wage Inequality in Search Equilibrium with Personal Contacts

2. Dario Sciulli (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Child Social Maladjustment and Adult Employment Dynamics

3. Michele Pellizzari (Università Bocconi), Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno), Liberalizing Professional Services: Evidence from Italian Lawyers

Session B2: Educational mismatch

Chair: Floro Ernesto Caroleo (Università di Napoli Parthenope)

1. Francesca Sgobbi (Università di Brescia), Young Graduate Employees Between Educational Mismatch and Skill Mismatch: An Empirical Analysis Based on REFLEX Data

2. Luigi Bonaventura (Università di Catania), The Role of Frictions on Italian Academic Recruitment System

3. Marco Pecoraro (Université Catholique de Louvain), Is There Still a Wage Penalty for Being Overeducated but Well-matched in Skills? A Panel Data Analysis of A Swiss Graduate Cohort

4. Floro Ernesto Caroleo (Università di Napoli Parthenope) e Francesco Pastore (Seconda Università di Napoli), Overeducation, Earnings and Job Satisfaction in the Graduate Labour Market

Session B3: Job quality

Chair: Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo)

1. Antonio Di Paolo, Ferran Mane (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Examining Job Satisfaction Among Recent PhD Graduates: Evidence from Catalonia

2. Damiano Fiorillo (Università di Napoli Parthenope), Nunzia Nappo (Università di Napoli Federico II), Job Satisfaction in Italy: Individual Characteristics and Social Relations

3. Laura Cavalli (Università di Verona), Fertility Intentions of Employed Mothers in Italy: Does the Choice of Public versus Private Sector Matter?

4. Annalisa Cristini, Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo), Why Have Permanent Workers Grown Dissatisfied with their Jobs?

Session B4: Macro 2  

Chair: Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia)

1. Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno), Giuseppe Mastromatteo (Università Cattolica), Assessing Labour-market Policies in the OECD. A difference-in-difference approach

2. Stanislaw Cichocki (University of Warsaw), Self-employment and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Poland

3. Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia), Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia), Joanna Tyrowicz (University of  Warsaw), Crises and Joint EmploymentProductivity Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective for European Countries

Session B5: Health at work 1

Chair: Claudio Lucifora (Università Cattolica)

1. Claudio Lucifora (Università Cattolica), Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo), The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces

2. Maite Blázquez (UAM), Elena Cottini (Università Cattolica), Ainhoa Herrarte (UAM), Socioeconomic Gradient in Health: How Important is Material Deprivation?

3. Tindara Addabbo (Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia), Marco Fuscaldo (Università Cattolica), Anna Maccagnan (Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia), Quality of Work and Health Status: A Multidimensional Analysis

 

Session B6: Wages  

Chair: Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Cassino)

1. Edoardo Di Porto (Universitá di Roma La Sapienza), Leandro Elia (Universitá della Calabria), Undeclared Work and Wage Inequality

2. Giorgio Brunello (Università di Padova), Simona Comi (Università di Milano Bicocca), Daniela Sonedda (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Training Subsidies and the Wage Returns to Continuing Vocational Training. Evidence from Italian Region

3. Michele Battisti (Simon Fraser University), Individual Wage Growth: the Effects of Industry Experience and Firm Tenure

4. Riccardo Massari (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Cassino), Giuseppe Ragusa (Università Luiss), Is there Wage Polarization in Europe? Aggregate and Individual Level Analysis

 

Session C1: Spatial interactions

Chair: Antonio Accetturo (Banca d’Italia)

1. Salvatore Farace, Fernanda Mazzotta (Università di Salerno), A Bivariate Probit Model for Analysing how the “Knowledge” Causes Innovation and their Effect in Small and Medium Firms

2. Guido de Blasio, Carlo Menon (Banca d’Italia), Local Effects of Manufacturing Employment Growth in Italy

3. Alessia Matano (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Cassino), What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution

4. Antonio Accetturo, Francesco Manaresi, Sauro Mocetti, Elisabetta Olivieri (Banca d’Italia), Immigration and the City

Session C2: Matching 1

Chair: Francesco Devicienti (Università di Torino)

1. Andrea Morescalchi (Università di Pisa), The Puzzle of Job Search and Housing Tenure: a Reconciliation of Theory and Empirical Evidence

2. Giulio Piccirilli (Universitas Mercatorum), Labour Market Flexibility and Gift Exchange

3. Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Francesco Devicienti (Università di Torino), Identifying Sorting in Practice

Session C3: School drop-outs and vocational training

Chair: Matteo Picchio (Tilburg University)

1. Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso, Yi-Ping Tseng (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research), A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers

2. Cristina Lopez-Mayan, Catia Nicodemo (Autonoma de Barcelona), Vocational High School or Vocational College? Comparing the Transitions from School to Work

3. Ainhoa Aparicio (Collegio Carlo Alberto), High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom

4. Matteo Picchio, Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University), Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers

Session C4: Gender studies, household formation and labour supply

Chair: Elisabetta Addis (Università di Sassari)

1. Ambra Poggi (Università di Milano-Bicocca), Matteo Richiardi (Università di Torino), Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity in Discrete-time, Discrete-choice Dynamic Microsimulation Models. An application to Labor Supply and Household Formation in Italy.

2. Mariacristina Rossi, (Università di Torino), Serena Trucchi (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Liquidity Constraints and Labor Supply

3. Fabrizio Colonna (Banca d'Italia), Stefania Marcassa (Paris School of Economics), Taxation and Labor Force Participation: The Case of Italy

4. Malte Sandner (Leibniz Universität Hannover), The Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Maternal Employment, Education, Fertility and Childcare Use. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment.

Session C5: Structural change

Chair: Davide Antonioli (Università di Ferrara)

1. William Addessi (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Labor Contracts and Productivity Dynamics

2. William Addessi, Enrico Saltari,  Riccardo Tilli (Università di Roma La Sapienza), The R&D and Innovation Activities and the Use of External Numerical Flexibility

3. Davide Antonioli (Università di Ferrara), Edoardo Della Torre (Università di Bergamo), Training and Innovation: the Use of Internal Labour Market Channels to Improve Workers Skills. Firm-Level Evidence fom Italy

4. Davide Antonioli, Annaflavia Bianchi, Massimiliano Mazzanti (Università di Ferrara), Sandro Montresor (Università di Bologna), Paolo Pini (Università di Ferrara), Economic Crisis, Innovation Strategies and Firm Performance. Evidence from Italian Firm-level Data

Session C6:  Unemployment

Chair: Lorenzo Corsini (Università di Pisa)

1. Carolina Fugazza (Università di Torino), Heterogeneity in the Unemployment Risk Over the Life Cycle

2. Lutz Bellmann (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung), Friedrich-Alexander (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Hans-Dieter Gerner (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung), Richard Upward (University of Nottingham), Job and Worker Turnover in German Establishments

3. Veronica Toffolutti (Università di Padova), The Implications of Changing Employment Protection: Evaluating the 1999 UK Unfair Dismissal Reform

4. Lorenzo Corsini (Università di Pisa), On Wealth, Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Duration: some Evidence from Italy

Session D1: Family networks

Chair: Fernanda Mazzotta (Università di Salerno)

1. Ainhoa Aparicio (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances

2. Agnese Romiti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Mariacristina Rossi (Università di Torino), Should we Retire Earlier in Order to Look After our Parents? The Role of Immigrants

3. Fazeer Rahim, José Tavares (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Family Matters: Gender Discrimination in Economic Development

4. Carmen Aina (Università del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”), Fernanda Mazzotta, Lavinia Parisi (Università di Salerno), Gender Differences in Money Transfers within the Family. Evidence from Italy

Session D2: Youth employment

Chair: Bruno Contini (Università di Torino)

1. Achille Puggioni, Roberto Stok (Banca d'Italia), Flexyouth: Young Workers' Contractual Pathways in Friuli Venezia Giulia

2. Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy, Damiano Fiorillo (Università di Napoli Parthenope), Francesco Pastore (Seconda Università di Napoli), Stepping Stones versus Dead End Jobs. A Comparison of Different Contract Arrangements.

3. Marco Lilla, Stefano Staffolani (Università Politecnica delle Marche), Young Entrants, Temporary Jobs and Career Opportunities. Short-Term Perspectives of Young Italian Workers

4. Bruno Contini, Elisa Grand (Università di Torino), Long Term Youth Unemployment or Disposable Workforce?

Session D3: Schooling outcomes

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

1. Marina Murat, Giulia Pirani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Culture, Institutions and the Gender Gap in Mathematics

2. Martina Menon, Federico Perali (Università di Verona), The Role of Circumstances and Effort to Enroll in Tertiary Education

3. Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa (Università della Calabria), The Long-Lasting Effects of School Entry Age: Evidence from Italian Students

4. Perihan Ozge Saygin (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies), Access to Higher Education in a Centralized System: School Choice and Willingn ess to Fail

Session D4: Macro 3

Chair: Leonello Tronti (Università di Roma Tre)

1. Mirella Damiani (Università di Perugia), Andrea Ricci (ISFOL), Firm-level Bargaining and Contingent Pay: New Evidence from Italy

2. Nicola Meccheri, Luciano Fanti (Università di Pisa), Informal Labour Incentive Contracts and Product Market Competition

3. Paolo Gelain (Norges Bank), Marco Guerrazzi (Università di Pisa), A DSGE Model from the Old Keynesian Economics: An Empirical Investigation

4. Leonello Tronti (Università di Roma Tre), Crisi e scambio politico. Impresa, territorio, comunità

Session D5: Experiments

Chair: Antonio Filippin (Università di Milano)

1. Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa (Università della Calabria), Gender Discrimination and Evaluators’ Gender: Evidence from the Italian Academy

2. Francesco D'Amuri (Banca d’Italia), Monitoring, Monetary Incentives and Workers' Rents in Determining Absenteeism

3. Antonio Filippin, Francesco Guala (Università di Milano), The Power of Costless Discrimination: Group Identity and Unequal Outcomes

Session E1: Social capital

Chair: Guido de Blasio (Banca d’Italia)

1. Guglielmo Barone, Guido de Blasio (Banca d’Italia), Local Electoral Rules and Political Participation

2. Claudio Lucifora (Università Cattolica), Dominique Meurs (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre), Social Risks, Family Values and Demand for Welfar

3. Idil Göksel (Izmir University of Economics), Conservatism and Female Labour Force Participation in Turkey

4. Giuseppe Albanese, Guido de Blasio (Banca d’Italia), Individual Covariates of Trust across European Citizens: What Do the Data Say?

Session E2: Matching 2

Chair: Giovanna Vallanti (Università Luiss)

1. Bernhard Boockmann (IAW), Stephan L. Thomsen, Thomas Walter, Christian Göbel (ZEW), Martin Huber (University of St. Gallen), Should Welfare Administration Be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence fFrom a Policy Experiment

2. Cristina Tealdi (IMT Lucca), How Do Employment Contract Reforms Affect Welfare? Theory and Evidence

3. Domenico Lisi (Università di Catania), The impact of EPL on labour productivity in a General Equilibrium Matching Model

4. Cecilia Jona Lasinio (ISTAT), Giovanna Vallanti (Università Luiss), Reforms, Labour Market Functioning and Productivity Dynamics: a Sectoral Analysis for Italy

Session E3: Returns to schooling and educational experiments

Chair: Maria De Paola (Università della Calabria)

1. Carmen Aina, Giorgia Casalone (Università del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”), Does Time-to-degree Matter? The Effect of  Delayed Graduation on Employment  and Wages

2. Hans Dietrich, Hans-Dieter Gerner (IAB), The Effects of Tuition Fees on the Decision for Higher Education: Evidence from a German Policy Experiment

3. Corrado Andini (Universidade da Madeira), Returns to Schooling in a Dynamic Mincerian Model with Individual Unobserved Heterogeneity

4. Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa (Università della Calabria), Frequency of Examinations and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment

Session E4: Macro 4

Chair: Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno)

1. Andrea Morescalchi (Università di Pisa), Housing Tenure and Individual Labour Market Outcomes. An Empirical Assessment Based on the UK Labour Force Survey

2. Luciano Fanti (Università di Pisa), Luca Gori (Università di Genova), Fertility-related Pensions, Tax-cum-subsidy and A–Pareto Efficiency

3. Umidjon Abdullaev (University of Vienna), Credit Frictions and the Dynamics of Formal and Informal Employment

Session E5: Health at work 2

Chair: Elena Cottini (Università Cattolica)

1. Massimiliano Agovino (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Safety and Productivity in the Agricultural Sector. Panel Analysis for Italian Regional Data

2. Elena Cottini, Paolo Ghinetti (Università Cattolica), Working Conditions, Lifestyles and Health

3. Gabriele Mazzolini (Economic Research Center on Labour and Industry), The Economic Consequences of Accidents at Work

4. Mohamed Ali Ben-Halima, Thierry Debrand, Camille Regaert (IRDES), Sick Leaves: Understanding Disparities Between French Departments

Session E6: Migration 2

Chair: Catia Nicodemo (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

1. Giuseppe Russo (Università di Salerno), Francesco Salsano (University of Milano), Electoral Systems and Immigration

2. Massimiliano Bratti (Università di Milano), Luca De Benedictis (Università di Macerata), Gianluca Santoni (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), On the Pro-Trade Effect of Immigrants

3. Michele Binci, Gianna Claudia Giannelli (Università di Firenze), The Impact of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Session E7: Discrimination

Chair: Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica)

1. Clémence Berson (Paris School of Economics), Competition and Discrimination: a not so Obvious Relationship

2. Paola Salardi (University of Sussex), The Evolution of Gender and Racial Occupational Segregation in Brazil - 1987 to 2006: Differences between Formal and non-Formal Labour Markets

3. Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica) Matteo Picchio (Tilburg University), The Trends over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy