370 research outputs found
Trading off wage for workplace safety? Gaps between immigrants and natives in Italy
No full textWe employ Italian administrative data to analyze the diferentials in wages and
workplace injuries between immigrants and natives over the 1994–2012 period. Via
propensity score reweighting, we construct the factual and counterfactual, marginal
and joint distributions of wages and workplace injuries. Examining the diferentials
along the entire distributions, our approach yields novel insights on their potential
drivers. Our fndings confrm that immigrants face lower wages and a substantially
higher injury risk than natives; futhermore, they highlight that foreign-born workers
display a disproportionate concentration of injuries around the minimum contractual
wages. Our results show that the latter can be interpreted as an unintended efect of
minimum contractual wages. Indeed, if wages are downward rigid and workplace
safety investments are costly, frms employing low-wage workers may reallocate
their savings away from wages onto safety. Over time, the gap is found to shrink.
Our analysis suggests that, beyond the reduction in workplace intensity during
recessions, this may be due to destruction of marginal jobs. Being disproportionally
concentrated in marginal occupations, then, lower-skilled migrant workers are more
vulnerable to downturns in the economic cycle. Overall, our results highlight that
labour market segmentation may co-exist with wage regulations
Severe ischemic left ventricular failure: coronary operation or heart transplantation?
No full textSevere left ventricular failure in ischemic heart disease may contraindicate conservative surgical procedures. To redefine therapeutic indications, the clinical and angiographic data of 143 patients (137 men and 6 women) with ischemic heart disease and a left ventricular ejection fraction less than 0.30 who were seen by us between June 1985 and December 1990 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients were divided into three groups according to therapy: medical only, 72 (group 1); myocardial revascularization, 20 (group 2); and heart transplantation, 51 (group 3). Clinical status was poorer in group 3, with congestive heart failure as predominant symptom; angina was more frequent in group 2. No difference was noted in hemodynamic variables. Four early deaths (20.0%) occurred in group 2 and 7 (13.7%) in group 3. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 64 months (mean, 22 +/- 19 months), with an actuarial survival of 28% +/- 9%, 80% +/- 8% and 82% +/- 5% at 5 years in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Even though postoperative New York Heart Association class was better in group 3 (1.0 versus 2.3 in group 2; p < 0.01), the difference in survival was not significant. Although in patients with ischemic heart disease and low left ventricular ejection fraction heart transplantation offers the best clinical results, considering the donor shortage, we conclude that myocardial revascularization may still be performed with good midterm results
Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell'Unione europea / Mastroianni, Pollicino, Allegrezza, Pappalardo, Razzolini (a cura di)
No full textIl presente scritto recensisce il commentario alla Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione europea. Le fonti del diritto italiano a cura di R. Mastroianni, O. Pollicino, S. Allegrezza, F. Pappalardo, O. Razzolini edito da Giuffrè nel 2017, in quanto si tratta di un'ottima guida per gli studiosi del diritto U
The pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of job displacement. The risky job of getting back to work
No full textCarta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione europea / Roberto Mastroianni, Oreste Pollicino, Silvia Allegrezza, Fabio Pappalardo y Orsola Razzolini (dirs.)
No full textLa recensione riguarda il commentario alla Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione a cura di R. Mastroianni, O. Pollicino, S. Allegrezza, F. Pappalardo, O. Razzolini ed edito da Giuffrè nel 2017. La recensione redatta in lingua spagnola per la RDCE considera che questo commentario sia un'ottima guida per gli studiosi e gli operatori del diritto
Correlations between biological effects and physical features provoked by different endolymphatic Coriolis accelerations.
No full textL'apporto essenziale di strumenti fisici sperimentali e modellistici per studiare particolari problemi dei canali semicircolari umani
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