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71 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17947
Intended College Major Choice and the Inheritance of Majors
Giorgio Brunello, Francesco Campo, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Martina Miotto, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17758
Shaken Politics: The Electoral Outcomes of Disasters and Social Capital
Giovanni Gualtieri, Marcella Nicolini, Fabio Sabatini, Marco Ventura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17476
Heritability in the Labour Market: Evidence from Italian Twins
Sonia Brescianini, Lorenzo Cappellari, Daniele Checchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17400
Another Chance: Number of Exam Retakes and University Students' Outcomes
Massimiliano Bratti, Silvia Granato, Enkelejda Havari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17374
Does Weaker Employment Protection Lower the Cost of Job Loss?
Marco Francesconi, Daniela Sonedda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17352
Does Work-Based Learning Facilitate the School to Work Transition? Evidence from an Italian Reform
Martino Bernardi, Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17331
Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes
Giorgio Brunello, Clementina Crocè, Pamela Giustinelli, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Economics Letters, 2025, 247, 112096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17307
Does Migrants' Consumption of Cultural Goods Impact on Their Economic Integration? Disclosing the Culture-to-Market Pathway
Salvatore Carrozzo, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Alessandra Venturini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16906
Did COVID-19 (Permanently) Raise the Demand for "Teleworkable" Jobs?
Massimiliano Bratti, I. Brunetti, A. Corvasce, Agata Maida, Andrea Ricci
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15871
Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Absence from Work
Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 9 (2025)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14930
Administrative Border Effects in COVID-19 Related Mortality
Paolo Berta, Massimiliano Bratti, Carlo V. Fiorio, Enrico Pisoni, Stefano Verzillo
revised version published oline in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series A ( Statistics in Society), 11 September 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14832
The Duration of the School-To-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries: A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation
Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7), 1579-1600.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14423
When Need Meets Merit: The Effect of Increasing Merit Requirements in Need-Based Student Aid
Tommaso Agasisti, Massimiliano Bratti, Veronica Minaya
revised version published in: European Economics review, 2022, 146, 104164
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14286
Aversion to Breaking Rules and Migration
Massimo Anelli, Tommaso Colussi, Andrea Ichino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14032
The Political Cost of Lockdown's Enforcement
Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani, Fabio Sabatini
revised version published as 'The political cost of sanctions: evidence from COVID-19' in: Health Policy ,2022, 126 (9), 872-878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13739
Happier with Vocational Education?
Giorgio Brunello
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13637
Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity
Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Checchi, Lorenzo Rocco
published as 'Where do I stand? Assessing researchers' beliefs about their productivity' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 185, 61-80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13462
Stuck at a Crossroads? The Duration of the Italian School-To-Work Transition
Francesco Pastore, Claudio Quintano, Antonella Rocca
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 442-469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13391
Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation
Werner Eichhorst, Anton Hemerijck, Gemma Scalise
published in: M. R. Busemeyer, A. Kemmerling, K. Van Kersbergen, P. Marx (eds.), Digitalization and the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2022, 64–82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13157
Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Sylke V. Schnepf, Elena Bastianelli, Zsuzsa Blaskó
revised version published online as 'What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK' in: European Education Research Journal, 2024, 23 (4), 479 - 502
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12854
Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2022, 46, 57 - 100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12816
Studying More to Vote Less: Education and Voter Turnout in Italy
Elona Harka, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 72, 102115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12773
Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12712
Workplace Unionism, Collective Bargaining and Skill Formation: New Results from Mixed Methods
Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti, Andrea Ricci
published as 'The collective voice of unions and workplace training in Italy: new insights from mixed methods' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 595 - 622
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12691
The Pathways to College
Lisha Agarwal, Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2021, 15 (4), 554 - 595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12273
'And Yet, It Moves': Intergenerational Mobility in Italy
Paolo Acciari, Alberto Polo, Giovanni L. Violante
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (3), 118 - 163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12226
Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, 85, 103582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12033
International Mobility of Students in Italy and the UK: Does It Pay off and for Whom?
Sylke V. Schnepf, Beatrice d'Hombres
revised version published in: Higher Education 2021, 82, 1173-1194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12021
Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection
Daniele Checchi, Simona Cicognani, Nevena Kulic
published in: Work Employment and Society 2019, 33 (3), 462-482
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11955
Civicness Drain
Marco Casari, Andrea Ichino, Moti Michaeli, Maria De Paola, Ginevra Marandola, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133, 649, 323–354.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11603
Testing at Length If It Is Cognitive or Non-Cognitive
Giorgio Brunello, Angela Crema, Lorenzo Rocco
published as 'Some Unpleasant Consequences of Testing at Length' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1002 - 1023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11339
Employment Protection, Temporary Contracts and Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Italy
Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Market' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11325
Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, Francesco Pastore
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (6), 1096-1117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11302
The Effect of the First Italian Research Evaluation Exercise on Student Enrolment Choices
Daniele Biancardi, Massimiliano Bratti
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 73-93
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11280
Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
Massimiliano Bratti, Luca De Benedictis, Gianluca Santoni
revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60(2), 249-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11062
Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces
Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Lorenzo Rocco
published as 'Does low skilled immigration increase the education of natives? Evidence from Italian provinces' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101794
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11060
What Are You Voting For? Proximity to Refugee Reception Centres and Voting in the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum
Massimiliano Bratti, Claudio Deiana, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella, Elena Claudia Meroni
revised version published as 'Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2020, 120, 103290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11026
The 'Gravity' of Quality: Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy
Massimiliano Bratti, Stefano Verzillo
revised version published as 'The 'gravity' of quality: research quality and the attractiveness of universities in Italy' in: Regional Studies, 2019, 53(10), 1385-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10767
Why So Slow? The School-to-Work Transition in Italy
Francesco Pastore
published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 44 (8), 1358-1371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9421
Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
Daniele Vignoli, Alessandra Venturini, Elena Pirani
published in :Journal of Family and Economic, 2017, 38 (5), 118-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9049
Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8921
The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy
Francesco Pastore
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8522
Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
Vincenzo Scoppa, Manuela Stranges
published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8511
Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences
Vincenzo Caponi
revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 63, 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8331
Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
Giorgio Brunello, Monica Langella
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics; 2016, 58, 104 - 114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8140
La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy
Paolo Naticchioni, Michele Raitano, Claudia Vittori
published in: Economia Politica, 2016, 33 (2), 233-264
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7922
The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Massimiliano Bratti, Chiara Conti
revised version published as "The effect of immigration on innovation in italy" in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (7), 934-947
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7788
Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7755
The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy
Giorgio Brunello, Simona Lorena Comi
published in: Journal of Economics of Aging, 2015, 6, 113 - 122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7722
Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Massimiliano Bratti, Daniele Checchi
revised version published in: Rivista di Politica Economica, 2016, 105, 145-189
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