2,043 research outputs found
Classe sociale e fecondità: conta più la classe “di lei” o “di lui”?
No full textLa decisione di avere un figlio è stata spesso studiata in relazione
alla condizione socio-economica della coppia, in termini specialmente di istruzione e ricchezza. Poco considerato è invece il ruolo della
classe sociale individuale dei due membri della coppia. Marco Albertini,
Teodora Maksimovic, Letizia Mencarini e Giorgio Piccitto, per mezzo
di un approccio quantitativo, mostrano che la classe sociale “di lei” è
determinante nella scelta di avere un figlio, e che questa circostanza è più
probabile per le donne in cima alla ‘piramide sociale’
Supplemental material for The Polarization Myth: Occupational Upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, 1992–2015
No full textSupplemental Material for The Polarization Myth: Occupational Upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, 1992–2015 by Daniel Oesch and Giorgio Piccitto in Work and Occupations</p
Soddisfazione lavorativa ed equilibrio casa-lavoro: un’analisi di genere
No full textJob satisfaction is an attitude related not only to work but also to extra-work experiences, because it affects household arrangements and fertility behaviour. In a context like Italy, characterized by the male breadwinner model, men and women are expected to attach different relevance to the domains of work and family; thus, it is interesting to see how gender moderate the association between job quality and job satisfaction. In other words, if male and female workers look for different things in work, their way of living their job could be different. This work inquires if the association between job quality and job satisfaction has the same magnitude and direction for men and women, and if not, in what the gender pattern diverges. In order to link the domains of work and family, the study is focused on the time dimension of job satisfaction: indeed, this dimension is the most influent for the chance of dealing with the .double role. (paid work and duties of care), and so the most suited to explore the differences between men and women. The results underline that with low duties of care (without a young child in the household) women are more satisfied than men in good jobs, while with high duties of care (with a young child in the household) women are more satisfied than men also in jobs of medium quality. Women with high duties of care especially appreciate technical professions, such as secretary, teacher, nurse, characterized by fixed schedule and clear contents; such features connote jobs as family-friendly, allowing mothers to handle working-life balance smoothly. Besides this difference, the general pattern of response to parenthood is similar between men and women: On a demand side, this may be explained with the fact that the Italian labour market is not well suited for mothers who want to remain in the paid work, and, on a supply side, with the alignment of parenthood practices between mothers and fathers
Donne, uomini e lavori: qualità del lavoro e soddisfazione lavorativa in Italia
No full textCome si definisce un “buon” lavoro? Che attributi deve avere per essere considerato soddisfacente da chi vi si trova coinvolto? Come si caratterizza il legame tra qualità del lavoro e soddisfazione lavorativa alla luce delle pervicaci traiettorie di mutamento dei mercati del lavoro degli ultimi decenni?
L’esperienza lavorativa viene vissuta allo stesso modo da donne e uomini, o la sua percezione varia sulla base del genere del lavoratore?
Per fornire una risposta a queste domande, il presente volume propone un’analisi empirica tesa ad esplorare come i cambiamenti del mondo del lavoro, che hanno caratterizzato in maniera inedita modelli organizzativi e contenuti delle occupazioni sotto la spinta pervasiva del progresso tecnologico e della terziarizzazione, abbiano ridefinito la percezione individuale di un lavoro come soddisfacente o meno. Più nello specifico, ci si interroga sul concetto di qualità del lavoro e sulla sua associazione con la soddisfazione lavorativa in Italia, relativamente a diversi aspetti del lavoro
In ricordo di Giorgio Piccitto, lessicografo, linguista e padre della dialettologia siciliana
No full textThis article aims at highlighting and revealing the importance of Giorgio Piccitto, a scholar, linguist and pupil from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, who died prematurely more than 50 years ago. As the father of modern dialectology in Sicily and author of the five-volume dictionary titled Vocabolario siciliano, he is still considered as the major reference for Sicilian studies
Vivere i “cattivi lavori”. Esperienze occupazionali di giovani istruiti nei fast food e nei call center
No full textNella società dei servizi la domanda di lavoro a bassa qualificazione sempre più
frequentemente viene intercettata da quote significative di giovani istruiti che si
accostano con atteggiamenti strumentali ai “cattivi lavori”. Il tema dei
bad jobs si interseca dunque con quello dell’overeducation, condizione sempre più diffusa tra
i giovani europei. Rispetto a questo quadro il paper presenta i risultati di un’indagine qualitativa che ha analizzato in che modo un gruppo di giovani istruiti occupati in fast food e call center ha affrontato l’esperienza di un “cattivo lavoro”, guardando sia alle caratteristiche dei due lavori, sia al background individuale del singolo lavoratore. I risultati della ricerca smentiscono un rapporto univoco fra cattivi lavori e insoddisfazione ed evidenziano differenti vissuti del lavoro fra gli operatori dei fast food e dei call center, in ragione della diversa articolazione di contenuti e condizioni d’impiego nei due tipi di attività e degli specifici significati che i giovani attribuiscono al lavoro
ETN909651 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Ethnic penalty and occupational mobility in the Italian labour market
No full textSupplemental material, ETN909651 Supplemental Material for Ethnic penalty and occupational mobility in the Italian labour market by Maurizio Avola and Giorgio Piccitto in Ethnicities</p
Ethnic penalty and occupational mobility in the Italian labour market
No full textThe article examines the occupational mobility of immigrants in Italy in a double perspective. First, this work compares immigrants and natives in order to understand whether, and to what extent, in a country characterized overall by low social mobility, natives and migrants have the same chances for improving their social position, or the latter are disadvantaged on an ethnic basis that affects their career (research question 1). Then, the article investigates what are the factors (referring to immigrants' human capital, socio-cultural assimilation process and ethnic network) fostering occupational mobility among immigrants (research question 2). We conduct an ordinary least squares analysis on microdata from two retrospective cross-sectional surveys, for natives and migrants, with the same sample design, questionnaire structure and variable classification, thereby allowing the comparison of results. The empirical findings confirm that intra-generational occupational mobility in Italy is overall very limited but that geographical origin is a significant factor influencing upward mobility. Thus, the existence of an ethnic penalty is confirmed. Furthermore, among migrants, high human capital improves (short-range) upward mobility, while the socio-cultural assimilation process only partly leads to economic assimilation. Conversely, the recourse to the ethnic network acts as a trap in low-qualified occupational careers, hindering an improvement of socio-economic position
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being
No full textUnemployment has a negative effect on the mental well-being of individuals who experience it. The well-being of the partners and children of these individuals is also negatively affected by this transition. Little is known, however, on the effect of the transition into unemployment on the mental well-being of the parents of unemployed people. This article analyses the association between child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ minor psychiatric morbidity, using the General Health Questionnaire score as a proxy. The effects of the length of the unemployment spell and the specific pathway into unemployment are investigated. Eventually, the moderating role of the national level of unemployment is also explored. Data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society are used. The results of the analyses indicate that child’s transition into unemployment has a small, statistically significant, negative effect on mothers’ mental well-being, whereas the effect on fathers’ distress is negligible. The association between mother’s mental well-being and child’s unemployment does not vary by the duration of the unemployment spell, or by the specific path into unemployment (from employment, studentship, or other inactive status). Differently, the negative effect of child’s unemployment on mother’s well-being is larger at higher levels of unemployment at the country level
Migrant and Satisfied? The Ethnic Gap in Job Satisfaction in the Italian Labor Market
No full textJob satisfaction is a desirable outcome both at the organizational and at the individual level. Anyway, little is known about the gap between natives’ and migrants’ job satisfaction, which represents a critical issue in the light of the increasing presenceof foreigner workers in the Western labor markets. In order to shed light on this issue, we estimate a number of OLS models to quantify sex-specific natives’ and migrants’ job satisfaction, by exploiting a particularly detailed Italian source of data (theSurvey of Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens). We find that being a migrant is not associated per se with any premium or penalty in job satisfaction. When we control for the different socio-demographic features and job characteristics ofnatives and migrants, it turns out that migrants are more satisfied than natives. Hence, it emerges in Italy a job satisfaction paradox based on the worker’s migratory status
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