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Has human capital accounted for regional economic growth in Italy? A panel analysis on the 1980-2001 period
Full text linkSince Solow's (1957) contribution, human capital entered in the debate on economic growth as a leading long period development factor. If from a theoretical point of view the role of human capital on economic growth both directly or throughout its use in the R&D activities is fully accepted, from an empirical perspective the results are much more controversial, strictly depending on the quality of data. A recent analysis by Aghion and Cohen (2004) put in evidence that high-level human capital has a positive effect on economic performance only if a country is close to the technological frontier: countries that are far from this frontier, specialised in traditional sectors, can growth, almost in the short run, even exploiting medium-level human capital. This analysis induce at looking at the link between human capital and growth with a greater detail, trying to disclose the effect of different human capital levels in a country, such as Italy, traditionally oriented toward a low/medium technology production. Using, beyond the usual proxies of human capital, some measures of its quality and of its interrelation with R&S sector, we would like to give a new contribution to the analysis of regional growth in Italy in the period 1980-2001. The panel approach, here used, allows us to take account of the temporal variability and to check for omitted variable specific for regions and persistent over time
Carriera scolastica ed esiti occupazionali di una generazione di giovani novares
No full textWP Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi Quantitativi, Università del Piemonte Orientale
The determinants of university dropout: A review of the socio-economic literature
Full text linkThis article provides a comprehensive review of the socio-economic literature on the student determinants of tertiary education dropout, in order to help research scholars better understand this phenomenon. Empirical findings are framed within a theoretical model that analyzes higher education choices and prospective outcomes in a dynamic setting, where informative issues (emphasized by the economic literature) and relational ones (emphasized by the sociological literature) are crucial to predicting students' achievements. Our review suggests that student university persistence/attrition depends on a mix of individual, institutional, and economic factors, the effects of which on the dropout decision are mediated by a student's ability to integrate into the academic system. Some factors are given, and their effects are valuable only in a descriptive perspective. Others, instead, can be manipulated by the decisionmakers in the tertiary education system and, as such, are more interesting from the policymaker's viewpoint. In particular, all interventions aimed at fulfilling the initial informational gap of students and at improving their integration into academic and social life are key to study success
Innovative nutraceutical products on the market: An acceptability evaluation of recently developed functional foods
No full text"Il fuoricorsismo tra falsi miti e realtà"
No full textIl ritardo alla laurea sta diventando un fenomeno comune anche in altri paesi, quali, ad esempio, Stati Uniti, Germania, Francia, Danimarca e Svezia (Brunello e Winter-Ebmer, 2003). Le ragioni sono diverse da un sistema all’altro. Nel caso italiano, la cattiva performance degli studenti in termini di tempo necessario per laurearsi sembra essere legata a diversi fattori, quali: 1) il sistema di regole di accesso (agli) e di prosecuzione (degli studi universitari); 2) le modalità di finanziamento del sistema universitario; 3) la mancanza di un sistema di istruzione post-secondario differenziato; 4) i rendimenti della laurea sul mercato del lavoro
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