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Aspettative salariali disattese. Il divario Nord-Sud
Full text linkThanks to the debate on the so called "reservation wage parado", it is fairly well known that job seekers in Southern Italy report, on average, higher reservation wages than in Central and Northern Italy, despite much higher unemployment in the South. It is less well known, however, that upon entering a job, Southern job seekers accept wages that are significantly lower than their own wage expectations as well as lower than the wages accepted by their counterparts in Central and Northern regions. According to the European Community Household Panel, the entry wage of 81% of those Southern workers who have found employment in the eight-year period covered by the survey is lower than the reservation threshold indicated in the latest survey interview. The median value of the reduction of entry wages with respect to reservation wages is 40% on an hourly basis for the Southern group of unemployed who found a job while the corresponding figure for the Centre-North is only 14%. In this article we revisit the debate on the role of wage expectations in influencing unemployment and its regional distribution by documenting North-South disparities in entry wages as well as in reservation wages. We show that not only is the regional disparity in entry wages larger than in reservation wages but also that this finding persists after controlling for statistical selection and the time elapsed between the survey interview and actual entrance into employment
The future of care in Europe. Exploring the trade-offs that are driving change
No full textThis paper updates the mapping of care provisions in Europe and examine change therein. The main line of argument is that change under way in the organization of personal care stems from the often conflicting goals of ensuring sustainability
of public finances and affordability of services for the family
Gender differences in the propensity to innovate: evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies from an institutional perspective
No full textThis study explores whether female firm ownership or management influences the propensity to innovate. This core subject intersects with other crucial institutional aspects, such as corruption, crime, social structure and credit rationing. The empirical analysis is based on a set of manufacturing and service firms from the 2014 World Bank Surveys in Malawi. We approach innovation by considering an aggregate measure resulting from a principal component analysis, creating an aggregate continuous variable that gives the dimension of innovation breadth. The findings support a positive effect of matrilineal districts on innovation for male and female managers. Female owners are more innovative in nonmatrilineal regions/districts, and male owners are more innovative in matrilineal regions/districts. In general, the participation of employees with new ideas and training activities is positively correlated with innovation. After controlling for endogeneity, using instrumental variable estimates, corruption is not an incentive for innovation, but neither do we find a negative effect
Communicating the energy: accretion properties and feedback in AGN
Full text linkThis thesis focuses on investigating the role of nuclear activity in SMBH-host galaxy self-regulated growth. This work is based on an extensive collection of multi-band imaging and spectroscopic data. Indeed, it is now widely accepted that AGN activity can affect different phases of the interstellar medium making mandatory a multi-wavelength approach that combines the study of emitting/absorbing gas at increasing distance from the SMBH. I have studied the relationships between nuclear properties, AGN-driven outflows, and host galaxy properties by investigating two specific cases. The first one aims at understanding if and how the huge radiative output of a hyper-luminous QSO interacts with the circum-galactic medium (CGM) of the host galaxy. The second science case regards the formation of the so-called Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG). BCGs are the most massive and luminous galaxies residing at the center of the relaxed, virialized and undisturbed clusters in the local Universe
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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