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Why has the growth of female employment in Italy been so slow?
No full textIn this paper, we analyze the employment growth of Italian women, from 1971 to 2009, focusing our attention on younger women in the age group 20-34, using Census data and Labour force survey data. Women’s employment increased in the first three decades but stopped growing in the last, although in most European countries have continued to grow. In spite of the rise in education of women and of the important socio demographic changes which have expanded women’s propensity to work, social policies aimed to support the conciliation of work and the family have been very limited in comparison with other European countries. Cross-country comparisons show that a slower growth in female employment have characterized areas where social policies have been more limited
Intergenerational transmission of time preferences and saving attitude: the role of information sharing
No full textThis paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between
parents and their children, examining the transmission of patience and saving
attitude. We explore the role of a specific parental behavior, such as sharing financial
information, in this transmission process. Using data from a representative survey of
Italian households (parents with children 14–20 years of age) our empirical analysis
reveals a significant and positive correspondence between parents’ and children’s
preferences. The results indicate that sharing information strengthens the
intergenerational transmission of patience between parents and children, particularly
among children under 18, households with a socioeconomic status (SES) above the
median, and daughters. Conversely, parents’ sharing information does not impact
significantly on the transmission of the saving attitude
Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis
Full text linkUsing data from OECD’s PISA, Eurostat and World Bank’s WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in education and attendance to early child care are associated with better later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to have significant effects Our results may imply that policies encouraging childcare expansion should also take into account quality issues
Il futuro degli italiani. Demografia, economia e società verso il nuovo secolo
Full text linkIl futuro della scuola, della sanità, del lavoro e di altri rilevanti aspetti del "sistema Italia", alla luce dei mutamenti demografici previsti dalle proiezioni demografiche ufficiali: le prospettive al 2007.- Indice #7- Introduzione, Marcello Pacini #11- Cap.I Le grandi tendenze del mutamento demografico, Stefano Molina e Alessandro Monteverdi #25- Cap.II Il lavoro, Stefano Molina, Alessandro Monteverdi, Daniela Del Boca #61- Cap.III L'istruzione, Carla Marchese #105- Cap.IV La sanità, Carla Marchese #129- Cap.V La rappresentanza politica, Stefano Molina #155- Cap.VI Considerazioni conclusive, Piero Gastaldo #177- Appendice Le prospettive delle singole regioni italiane #191- Segnalazioni bibliografiche #27
Child Care Arrangements and Labor Supply
Full text linkThis paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers\u27 labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and because most European and American households with children aged 3-5 already use child care centers. The paper provides data concerning availability of, government spending on, and quantity and quality standards for child care in different countries, then compares different approaches to the determinants of child care demand and labor supply. The paper subsequently reviews and compares empirical results regarding the impact of child care costs, availability and quality. Finally, the paper discusses different impacts across different groups and provides concluding remarks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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