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Firing Costs and Job Loss: The Case of the Italian Jobs Act
Full text linkA recent reform in the Italian labour market has modified the permanent contract by reducing firing costs. Using a discontinuity in the application of the reform, we evaluate its effect on the probability of being still employed about three and a half years later. In contrast with theoretical predictions, we find that the job survival probability is not smaller for the treated and even significantly larger in some cases. We investigate the composition of permanent workers hired after the reform and we find evidence of treated firms changing their recruitment strategy in favour of potentially more productive workers
Does Immigration Raise Blue and White Collar Wages of Natives?
No full textQuaderni di Ricerca del Dipartimento di Economia dell'Università Politecnica delle March
“How does Skill Change with Technological Change? The UK Experience over the 1980s”
No full textThe literature on skill-biased technical change has mainly attempted to quantify the extent of skill upgrading due to technological change, disregarding the issue of how such skill upgrading takes place. This paper focuses on the process itself of skill upgrading linking it to the process of technical change using input / output and census data relative to the UK during the 1980s. In the 1960s two hypotheses contended the ground. On the one hand, Nelson and Phelps (1965) argued skill upgrading in the employment structure, mainly due to education change, be a pre-requisite and a cause of technical change. On the other hand, Griliches (1969) suggested that the contrary might be true. To explore the issue, individual and pooled regressions are estimated using technical change as dependent variable and various types of occupational and skill changes as regressors. The findings suggest prompt skill upgrading, mainly obtained through occupational change, happened in the early stages of ICT diffusion and cumulated skill upgrading, obtained eventually through the employment of high skill workers, happened only in late stages of ICT diffusion. This is evidence in favour of the hypothesis that skill upgrading be the consequence, rather than the cause of ICT growth
L’evoluzione della mobilità occupazionale nelle fasi iniziali della carriera in Italia: due coorti di giovani a confronto
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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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