Session A. Labour, productivity and growth

 

Session B. Temporary contracts and precarious jobs: working careers, life and family choices

 

Session C. Free Contributions

 

Session A. Labour, productivity and growth

Chair: Alessandra Del Boca (Università di Brescia)

1. Stefano Fachin (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Andrea Gavosto (Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli), The Decline in Italian Productivity: A Study in Estimation of Long-Run Trends in Total Factor Productivity with Panel Cointegration Methods

2. Esben Anton Schultz (Copenhagen Business School), Battista Severgnini (Humboldt University Berlin), Anders Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School), Skill-Biased Technological Change vs. Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from OECD Countries

3. Maria Gabriela Ladu (University of Essex), Total Factor Productivity Estimates for a Sample of European Regions: A Panel Cointegration Approach

Chair: Leonello Tronti (Istat)

1. Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno), Giuseppe Mastromatteo (Università Cattolica di Milano), Labour-Market Performance in the OECD. An Assessment of Recent Evidence

2. Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia), Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia), Productivity, Models of Growth and the Role of Human Capital in the European Countries

3. Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez (University of Salamanca), Giuseppe Russo (Università di Salerno), What Happened to the European Employment-Output Relationship? A Comparative Perspective over the Employment Dynamics in Europe

4. Misbah Tanveer Choudhry (University of Groningen), Trade Off Between Productivity and Employment: An International Comparison

Chair: Bruno Contini (Università di Torino)

1. Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello (Università di Roma 'La Sapienza’), Labor Market Rigidity and Productivity Growth

2. Federico Lucidi (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’), Labour Market Flexibility and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from Firm-level Data

Chair: Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica di Milano)

1. Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori (University of Pisa), On Economic Growth and Minimum Wages

2. Alessandra Del Boca (University of Brescia), Michele Fratianni (Indiana University), Franco Spinelli, Carmine Trecroci (University of Brescia), Wage Bargaining Coordination and the Phillips Curve in Italy

3. Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI), Fabiano Schivardi (Università di Cagliari), Does Idiosyncratic Business Risk Matter?

4. Michele Limosani and Massimo Mucciardi (Università di Messina), Regional Employment Evolution in Italy: Some Preliminary Analysis

Chair: Maria Laura Parisi (Università di Brescia)

1. Concetta Mendolicchio (Université Catholique de Louvain), Dimitri Paolini (Università di Sassari), Tito Pietra (Università di Bologna), Investments in Education and Unemployment in a Random Matching Model

2. Sergio Scicchitano (Università di  Roma La Sapienza), Complementarity Between Heterogeneous Human Capital and R&D: can Job-Training Avoid Low Development Traps?

3. Massimiliano D’Alessio (Fondazione Metes, Roma), Ornella Wanda Maietta (Università di Napoli Federico II), Innovation and Human Capital in the Italian Food Industry: A Comparative Analysis on Micro-Data

Chair: Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia)

1. Rita Cappariello, Roberta Zizza (Banca d'Italia), Dropping the Books and Working off the Books

2. Johannes Gernandt, Katja Coneus, Marianne Saam (ZEW), Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

3. Corrado Andini, Pedro Telhado Pereira (Universidade da Madeira), Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal

4. Stefano M. Iacus (Università di Milano), Giuseppe Porro (Università di Trieste), Teachers’ Evaluations and Students’ Achievement: How to Identify Grading Standards and Measure their Effects

Chair: Renata Livraghi (Università di Parma)

1. Niall O'Higgins (Università di  Salerno), Guide to the School-to-Work Transition

2. Alessandra Righi (Istat), Dario Sciulli (Università di  Pescara), Durata dei processi di transizione transizione scuola-lavoro: un confronto europeo

3. Francesco Avvisati (Paris School of Economics), Diploma Free Riders. Errors in Assessing Employees' Education, and Their Consequences

4. Anders Stenberg (Stockholm University), Upgrading Low Skilled Adults - Is Public Provision of Formal Education a Sensible Policy

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

1. Ciro Baldi (Istat), Changes in Relative Wages in Japan: 1984-2003. The Role of Supply and Demand

2. Andrea Ricci (ISFOL), Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Roma La Sapienza), The Evolution of Wage Inequality in the Public Sector: Evidence from Italy

3. Thomas Dohmen (Maastricht University), Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva (Università di Bologna), The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Chair: Mario Biagioli (Università di Parma)

1. Gian Carlo Cainarca (Università di Genova), Francesca Sgobbi (Università di Brescia), Istruiti e competenti? Le determinanti del match fra domanda e offerta di lavoro in Italia

2. Stefano Elia, Ilaria Mariotti, Lucia Piscitello (Politecnico di Milano), Outward FDI and Home Employment. Is Italy Experiencing Skill Upgrading?

3. Fabian Slonimczyk (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Skill Mismatch and Earnings: A Panel analysis of the U.S. Labor Market

Chair: Riccardo Leoni (Università di Bergamo)

1. Federico Biagi (Università di Padova), Maria Laura Parisi (Università di Brescia), Lucia Vergano (Università di Padova), Organizational Innovations and Labor Productivity in a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

2. Emilio Colombo, Luca Stanca (Università di Milano Bicocca), The Impact of Training on Productivity: Evidence from a Large Panel of Firms

3. Sergio Salis (Policy Studies Institute), Knowledge Sharing Through Face-To-Face Communication and Labour Productivity: Evidence from British Workplaces

4. Shingo Takahashi (Graduate School of International Management), How Multi-Tasking Job Designs Affect Productivity? Evidence from Australian Open Cut Coal Mines

Chair: Sergio Albertini (Università di Brescia)

1. Annalisa Cristini (Università di Bergamo), Dario Pozzoli (Aarhus School of Business), Workplace Practices and Firm Performance in Manufacturing: a Comparative Study of Italy and UK.

2. Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo), Workplace Flexibility and Institutions in Great Britain and Italy. New Evidence from Establishment-Level Panel Data

3. Davide Antonioli (Università di Ferrara), High Performance Work System and Firm Economic Outcome. Evidence For an Italian Local Production System

4. Edoardo Della Torre (Centro Studi Assolombarda), Luca Solari (Università di Milano), Innovazioni organizzative e risultati aziendali. Il caso medie imprese milanesi

Chair: Francesca Sgobbi (Università di Brescia)

1. Alessandro Gaj, Riccardo Leoni (Università di Bergamo), Competenze e apprendimento informale nel sistema manifatturiero lombardo. La rilevanza dei disegni organizzativi

2. Sergio Albertini (Università di Brescia), Combinazioni di pratiche di gestione delle risorse umane e natura del coinvolgimento dei lavoratori - L’evidenza empirica in Italia

3. Michele Mosca (Università di Napoli Federico II, Francesco Pastore (Università di Napoli 2), Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods. The case of the Italian Social Service Sector

4. Gianni De Fraja (University of Leicester), Paola Valbonesi (Università di Padova), The Design of the University System

Chair: Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno)

1. Leonello Tronti (Istat), Distribuzione del reddito, produttività del lavoro e crescita: il ruolo del sistema contrattuale

2. Alfonso Arpaia, Esther Pérez (Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs European Commission), Labour Share Dynamics in Europe: A Time-Horizon Approach

3. Piero Casadio (Bank of Italy), Ruolo e prospettive della contrattazione aziendale integrativa: informazioni dall’indagine della Banca d’Italia

4. Mirella Damiani (Università di Perugia), Andrea Ricci (ISFOL, Roma), Company Agreements and Share Contracts: Evidence from Italy

Session B. Temporary contracts and precarious jobs: working careers, life and family choices

Chair: Lia Pacelli (Università di Torino)

1. Gianna Claudia Giannelli (Università di Firenze), Ursula Jaenichen (IAB, Nürnberg), Claudia Villosio (LABOR, Turin), Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy

2. Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza), Is Long-Term Unemployment Unaffected by Flexible Labour Market Legislation?

3. Tatiana Karabchuk (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Determinants of Temporary Employment for Men and Women in Russia

4. Barbara Boschetto, Carlo Lucarelli (Istat), Sicuri di lavorare insicuri: nuove prospettive dall’indagine sulle forze di lavoro

Chair: Paolo Sestito (Bank of Italy and OCSE)

1. Alessandra Del Boca, Paola Rota (Università di Brescia), Entry and Exit Flexibility: Asymmetries in the Italian Labour Market

2. Fabio Berton, Francesco Devicienti, Lia Pacelli (Università di Torino), Temporary Jobs: Port of Entry, Trap, or just Unobserved Heterogeneity?

3. Matteo Picchio, Bart Cockx (Université Catholique de Louvain), Are Short-Term Jobs Springboards to Long-Term Jobs? A New Approach

4. Oana Calavrezo (Université d’Orléans), The Effects of Fixed-term Employment Spells on the Integration of School-leavers on the Labour Market: Evidence from France

Chair: Bruno Contini (Università di Torino)

1. Elena Fabrizi (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Rinaldo Evangelista (Università di Camerino), Stability and Instability of New Jobs: An Analysis Based on INPS Work Histories Data

2. Joel Karlsson, Jonas Månsson (Växjö University), Getting Full-Time Job as a Part-Time Unemployed: How Much Do Context Matter?

3. Marco Facchinetti and Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo), Flexicurity at Work: the Relation Between Temporary Contract and Perceived Job Security in Europe

Session C.   Free Contributions

Chair:  Giulio Piccirilli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)

1. Marco Guerrazzi (Università di Pisa), The Animal Spirits Hypothesis and the Benhabib-Farmer Condition for Indeterminacy

2. Benedicta Marzinotto (Università di Udine), Beyond Monetary Credibility: the Impact of Globalisation on the Output-Inflation Trade-Off in Euro-Area Countries

3. Giulio Piccirilli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Search, Unions and the Quality of Industrial Relations

Chair:  Fernanda Mazzotta (Università di Salerno)

1. Martin Falk, Thomas Leoni (Austrian Institute of Economic Research), Further Evidence on the Wage Curve for Austria

2. Beatrice Pierluigi, Moreno Roma (European Central Bank), Labour Cost and Employment Across Euro Area Countries and Sectors

3. Marco Leonardi (Università di Milano), Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University), Sources of Earnings Instability: Estimates from an On-the-Job Search Model of the U.S. Labor Market

4. Sergio Destefanis, Giovanni Pica (Università di Salerno), Waging Regression on the Curve. An Italian Tale

Chair:  Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno)

1. Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Spatial Externalities and Wage Distribution: the Role of Sorting

2. Stefano Staffolani (Università Politecnica delle Marche), Enzo Valentini (Università di Macerata), Does Migration Raise Blue and White Collars Wages?

3. Francesca Bettio (Università di Siena), Fernanda Mazzotta (Università di Salerno), Gabbie salariali. Ci ha già pensato il mercato?

Chair:  Francesco Pastore (Università di Napoli 2)

1. Marian Dinga (CERGE-EI, Prague), The Impact of Territorially Concentrated FDI on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Czech Republic

2. Anna M. Falzoni (Università di Bergamo), Lucia Tajoli (Politecnico di Milano), Does Offshoring Affect the Domestic Labor Market? The Case of Italy

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

1. Anna Laura Mancini (Università di Torino), Labor Supply Responses of Italian Women to Minimum Income Policies

2. Sridhar Thapa (Università della Tuscia), Migration, Remittances and Household Labour Allocation: An Empirical Analysis from Panel Data

3. Danilo Cavapozzi (Università di Padova), Estimating the Labor Supply Dynamics of Older Workers Using Repeated Cross-sections

Chair: Stephan L. Thomsen (University, Magdeburg and ZEW)

1. Sule Akkoyunlu (Socioeconomic Institute, Zurich), Trade, Aid, Remittances and Migration

2. Michela Martinoia, Massimiliano Serati (LIUC), Skill Levels of Migrants and their Effects on the European Labour Market

3. Michele Moretto (Università di Padua), Sergio Vergalli (Università di Brescia), Managing Migration through Quotas: an Option-theory Perspective

4. Alisher Aldashev, Johannes Gernandt (ZEW), Stephan L. Thomsen (University, Magdeburg and ZEW), Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings

Chair: Alessandra Venturini (Università di Torino)

1. Francesco Fasani (University College London), Undocumented Migrants and Labour Demand Shocks: an Empirical Analysis of Deportations

2. Tommaso Frattini (University College London), Immigration and Prices in the UK

3. Milo Bianchi (Paris School of Economics), Paolo Buonanno (Università di Bergamo), Paolo Pinotti (Bank of Italy), Do Immigrants Cause Crime?

4. Riccardo Faini (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Alessandra Venturini (Università di Torino), Claudia Villosio (Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli), Are Foreign Migrants more Assimilated than Native Ones?

Chair: Sergio Vergalli (Università di Brescia)

1. Peng Liu (The Australian National University), English Proficiency and Labour Supply of Immigrants in Australia

2. Murat G. Kirdar (Middle East Technical University), Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

3. Ainura Uzagalieva (CEEAplA, University of Asores), The Poverty Effect of Remittance Flows: Evidence from Georgia

4. Sergio Vergalli (University of Brescia), Entry and Exit Strategies in Migration Dynamics

Chair: Joachim Wolff (Institute for Employment Research, IAB)

1. Giulia Colombo, Reinhold Schnabel, Stefanie Schubert (ZEW), Basic Income Reform in Germany: A Microsimulation-AGE Analysis

2. Antonio Accetturo, Guido de Blasio (Bank o f Italy), Policies for Local Development: an evaluation of Italy’s Territorial Pacts

3. Joachim Wolff (Institute for Employment Research, IAB), A Fistful of Euros: Does One-Euro-Job Participation Lead Means-Tested Benefit Recipients Into Regular Jobs and Out of Unemployment Benefit II Receipt?

Chair: Stefano Staffolani (Università Politecnica delle Marche

1. Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo (Banco de Portugal), The Impact on Reemployment Wages of UI Non-Distortionary Income Effect: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

2. Alberto Dalmazzo (Università di Siena), Guido de Blasio (Bank o f Italy), Skill-Biased Agglomeration Effects and Amenities: Theory with an Application to Italian Cities

3. Carmen Aina, Giorgia Casalone, Paolo Ghinetti (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”), Internal Geographical Mobility and Educational Outcomes. An Analysis for an Italian Province

4. Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo, Carla Machado (Banco de Portugal), The Anatomy of Employment Growth in the Portuguese Firms

Chair: Raffaele Miniaci (Università di Brescia)

1. Alexandra Rufini, Dominique Torre (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Choosing Recruitment Channels to Fill High Job Positions

2. Mauro Sylos Labini (Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies), Social Capital and the Labor Market: When is the Family at Work?

3. Davide Antonioli, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Paolo Pini (Università di Ferrara), Working Conditions ‘Determinants’: the Role of Innovations and Industrial Relations. Evidence for a Local Production System

4. Sebastian Buhai,  Elena Cottini, Niels Westergaard-Nielsen (University of Aarhus), The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

5. Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Raffaele Miniaci (Università di Brescia), Marco Piovesan (University of Copenaghen), Giovanni Ponti (Universidad de Alicante), Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: an Experiment on Markets and Contracts

Chair: Giancarlo Provasi (Università di Brescia)

1. Sara Depedri (Università di Trento), Tra motivazione intrinseca ed economica un nuovo modello di relazioni industriali nelle cooperative sociali

2. Marica Manisera (Università di Brescia), Qualità oggettiva e soggettiva del lavoro nelle cooperative sociali

3. Silvia Golia, Maurizio Carpita (Università di Brescia), Misure soggettive della qualità del lavoro nelle cooperative sociali

4. Paola Zuccolotto (Università di Brescia), Soddisfazione e impegno per il lavoro nelle cooperative sociali

5. Marina Schenkel, Michela Battauz, Luca Grassetti, Domenico Marino (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria), Miriam Michelutti (Università di Udine), Soddisfazione e motivazioni dei volontari: analisi preliminari sui risultati della ICSI 2007

Chair: Gianna Claudia Giannelli  (Università di Firenze and CHILD)

1. Catia Nicodemo (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Gender Gap and Quantile Regression in European Families

2. Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Leonardo Grilli (Università di Firenze), School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India

3. Lucia Mangiavacchi (Università di Firenze), Investment In Children And The Youth In Post-Soviet Oil Economies: The Case Of Kazakhstan

4. Catia Nicodemo (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Child-Care and Participation in the Labour Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries

5. Michele Di Maio (University of Naples Parthenope), Tushar K. Nandi (Università di Siena), Child Labour in Palestine: the Role of Adult Labour Market and Israeli Closures

Chair: Luigi Frey (Università di Roma La Sapienza)

1. Nihan Blanchy, Leman Yonca Gurbuzer (Université Paris 1), Youth Unemployment Duration in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2. Alessandra De Lellis, Manuel Marocco, Emiliano Rustichelli (ISFOL), Enhancing Youth Employment in Italy

3. Floro Ernesto Caroleo (Università di Napoli Parthenope), Francesco Pastore (Università di Napoli 2), The Youth Experience Gap. Explaining Differences Across EU Countries

Chair:  Renata Livraghi (Università di Parma)

1. Paolo Federighi (Università di Firenze), Analisi delle misure di flexicurity in alcuni contesti europei

2. Emanuela Ghignoni (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Paola Naddeo, Gabriella Pappadà (Università di Viterbo “La Tuscia”), Flexicurity Analysis of Youngsters in Europe

3. Cristiano Perugini, Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia), Youth Labour Market Performance in European Regions

4. Renata Livraghi (Università di Parma), Flexicurity e integrazione dei giovani nei sistemi economici e sociali

Chair: Benedetto Gui (Università di Padova)

1. Ermanno Tortia (Università di Trento), Incentive-mix, Performance and Innovation in the Service Sector: Survey-Based Findings from Italy

2. Nicola Meccheri (Università di Pisa). Large Breach Penalties and Managers' Incentives to Invest Inside or Outside Firms

3. Benedetto Gui (Università di Padova), Vittorio Pelligra (Università di Cagliari), A Double Adverse Selection Model With Social Responsible Firms and Heterogeneous Workers

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