THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014
UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA
POLO PIAGGE, VIA GIACOMO M ATTEOTTI, 3 - PISA
8.45
Arrival and registration
9.30
Conference presentation by the AIEL President Claudio Lucifora (UCSC) and welcome address
by the Pro-Rector of Pisa University, Prof. Marco Guidi.
10.00 - 11.00
PLENARY LECTURE
KLAUS ZIMMERMANN (Bonn University and IZA)
THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKET REFORMS
Presentation and introduction by Claudio Lucifora (UCSC)
11.00 - 13.00
A.1
PARALLEL SESSIONS A
Labour markets in transition economies
Chair: Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia)
Olga Demidova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Enrico Marelli
(Università di Brescia), Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia)
The Spatial Effects of the Youth Unemployment Rate for Russia and Italy
Hartmut Lehmann (Università di Bologna), Anzelika Zaiceva (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Informal Employment in Russia: Definitions, Incidence, Determinants and Labor Market Segmentation
Francesco Bartolucci (Università di Perugia), Aleksandra Bashina (Higher School of Economics, Moscow),
Giovanni S. F. Bruno (Università Bocconi), Olga Demidova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow),
Marcello Signorelli (Università di Perugia)
Determinants of Job Satisfaction in Young Russian Workers
Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia) and Elena Vakulenko (National Research University Higher School
of Economics, Moscow)
Youth Unemployment in Italy and Russia: Aggregate Trends and the Role of Individual Determinants
A.2
Family motherhood and work
Chair: Thomas Leoni (Austrian Institute of Economic Research)
Eliane El Badaoui (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre), Eleonora Matteazzi (Università di Verona)
To be a Mother, or not to be? Career and Wage Ladder in Italy and the UK
Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Stephen McKay (University of Lincoln, UK)
Wage and Employment Gaps: the Role of Fertility Intentions, Motherhood and Household Labour
Francesca Carta, Lucia Rizzica (Banca d'Italia)
Female Employment and Pre-kindergarten: on the Unintended Effects of an Italian Reform
Thomas Leoni, Rainer Eppel (Austrian Institute of Economic Research)
Motherhood, Employment and Health at Age 50+. Evidence for Europe across Welfare Regimes
A.3
Health and work
Chair: Elena Sarti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Elena Cottini, Claudio Lucifora, Matteo Ruggeri (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Health Care in Transition. Evidence on the Well-being of Workers in the European Health and Social
Care Sector
Elena Cottini, Claudio Lucifora, Gabriele Mazzolini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Work Organization Systems and the Health of Workers: Is There a Bad Effect on Health?
Roberto Leombruni (Università di Torino), Tiziano Razzolini (Università di Siena), Francesco Serti
(University of Alicante)
Unemployment at Entry and the Occupational Injury Risk of Young Workers
Tindara Addabbo, Elena Sarti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Access to Work and Disability: The Case of Italy
A.4
Education 1
Chair: Marco Tonello (Banca d'Italia)
Carmen Aina (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale), Massimiliano Bratti (Università di Milano),
Michele Raitano (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza)
Better Late than Never? The Effect of Delayed Entry of Graduates into the Labour Market Over the Life
Cycle
Paolo Ghinetti (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale)
Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Italy: An Evaluation Based on Control Functions
Corrado Andini, Pedro Telhado Pereira (Universidade da Madeira)
Does Part-time Schooling Pay? Panel Quantile-regression Evidence
Claudio Lucifora (Università Cattolica di Milano), Marco Tonello (Banca d'Italia)
Deterrence, Social Ties and Cheating in the Classroom. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
A.5
ICT
Chair: Samuele Poy (FBK-IRVAPP, Trento)
Smaranda Pantea, Federico Biagi, Anna Sabadash (European Commission)
Are ICT Displacing Workers? Evidence from Seven European Countries
Bianca Biagi, Maria Gabriela Ladu (Università di Sassari)
The Short and Long Run Impact of Technology on Employment: Evidence from Italy
Manuel Hidalgo-Pérez, Benedetto Molinari (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Learning the New Technology: the Polarization of the Wage Distribution
Giulia Canzian, Samuele Poy, Simone Schüller (FBK-IRVAPP, Trento)
High-Speed Internet and Firm Productivity. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Province of Trento
A.6
Migration 1
Chair: Muhammad Waqas (Newcastle University)
Carmen Ródenas, Mónica Martí, Ángel León (University of Alicante)
The Great Crisis: Some Pieces of the Spanish Migration Puzzle
Aaron Nicholas, Chandra Shah
Incentives for Relocating to Regional Australia: Estimates Using a Choice Experiment
Claudia Cigagna, Giovanni Sulis (Università di Cagliari)
On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Nils Braakmann, Muhammad Waqas, John Wildman (Newcastle University, Business School)
Are Immigrants in Favour of Immigration? Evidence from England and Wales
A7 Education and training
Chair: Roberta Zizza (Banca d’Italia)
Enrico Conti, Silvia Duranti (IRPET), Alessandra Mattei, Fabrizia Mealli (Università di Firenze), Nicola
Sciclone (IRPET)
The Effects of a Dropout Prevention Program on Secondary Students’ Outcomes
Gabriele Mazzolini (Università Cattolica di Milano), Nicola Orlando (IRS)
Off-the-job Training on Employment. Empirical Evidence of an Italian Region
Anna Laura Mancini, Roberta Zizza (Banca d’Italia)
Time Investment in Human Capital During Childhood. A Focus on Reading
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 - 16.00
B.1
PARALLEL SESSIONS B
Macroeconomics in recession
Chair: Hector Sala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Marco Guerrazzi (Università di Genova)
Animal Spirits, Investment and Unemployment: An Old Keynesian View of the Great Recession
Maurizio Bovi, Massimo Mancini (ISTAT)
Recessions, Expectations, and Labor Supply Dynamics
Lisa Rodano, Concetta Rondinelli (Banca d'Italia)
The Italian Household Consumption: A Comparison Among Recessions
Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
The Decline of the Labor Income Share: A Reappraisal of the Driving Forces
B.2
Women and gender in labour market
Chair: Anna Giraldo (Università di Padova)
Maurizio Baussola (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza), Jamie Jenkins (Office for National
Statistics, London), Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza), Matthew Penfold
(Office for National Statistics, London)
Determinants of the Unemployment Gender Gap: A Comparative Investigation
Elena Dalla Chiara, Eleonora Matteazzi, Ilaria Petrarca (Università di Verona)
From the Glass Door to the Glass Ceiling: An Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap by Age Groups
Paola Meozzi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Labour Market and Flexibility: A Logistic Regression Model to Estimate the Likelihood of Being Atypical
for a Woman Employed in Pisa
Donata Favaro, Anna Giraldo (Università di Padova)
Mobility Lists and Re-Employment: the Case of Female Workers in North East Italy
B.3
Education 2
Chair: Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld University)
Francesco Berlingieri, Ulrich Zierahn (ZEW)
Field of Study, Qualification Mismatch, and Wages: Does Sorting Matter?
Luca Cattani, Giovanni Guidetti (Università di Bologna), Giulio Pedrini (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects of Overeducation Among Italian Graduates Using a New
Measure for Educational Requirements
Francesca Sgobbi (Università di Brescia)
Adult Education, Training and Individual Performance: Some Preliminary Evidence from PIAAC
Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld University)
On-the-Job Search and Optimal Schooling under Uncertainty and Irreversibility
B.4
Union and collective bargaining 1
Chair: Alvaro A. Novo (Banco de Portugal)
Stella Capuano, Andreas Hauptmann, Hans-Jörg Schmerer (IAB)
Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Francesco Devicienti (Università di Torino), Paolo Naticchioni (University of Roma Tre), Andrea Ricci
(ISFOL)
Temporary Employment, Volatility and Unions: Firm-level Evidence from Italy
Luciano Fanti, Nicola Meccheri (Università di Pisa)
Unionisation Regimes, Capacity Choice by Firms and Welfare Outcomes
Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo (Banco de Portugal)
The Impact of Unionization on Employment and Wages
B.5
Jobs and workers flows
Chair: Perihan Ozge Saygin (University of Mannheim)
Begoña Cueto, Vanesa Rodríguez, Patricia Suárez (University of Oviedo)
The Impact of Human Capital and Career Trajectory on Self-employment Survival
Antonio Di Paolo (Universitat de Barcelona), Anna Matas, Josep Lluís Raymond (Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona)
Job Accessibility, Employment and Job-education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Yuliia Stupnytska, Anna Zaharieva (Bielefeld University)
Explaining the U-shape of the Referral Hiring Pattern in a Search Model with Heterogeneous Workers
Perihan Ozge Saygin, Andrea Weber, Michèle A. Weynandt (University of Mannheim)
Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
B.6
Job loss and unemployment
Chair: Sinem H. Ayhan (Università di Bologna)
Lorenzo Corsini (Università di Firenze), Paolo Frumento (Karolinska Institutet)
Finite Mixture Modeling of Unemployment Duration
Sauro Mocetti and Eliana Viviano (Banca d’Italia)
Looking Behind Mortgage Delinquencies
Niki Stylianidou (Istat)
The New Supplementary Indicators to Unemployment Rate; an Alternative Interpretation of the Labour
Market
Sinem H. Ayhan (Università di Bologna)
How Do Married Women Respond When Their Husbands Lose Their Jobs? Evidence from Turkey During
the Recent Crisis
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 - 18.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS C
C.1
Job satisfaction and Health
Chair: Elisabetta Olivieri (Banca d'Italia)
Giovanni S.F. Bruno (Università Bocconi), Floro E. Caroleo (Università di Napoli Parthenope), Orietta
Dessy (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)
Job Satisfaction and Compensating Wage Differentials Among Young Workers in Italy
Gianluigi Coppola, Niall O'Higgins, Claudio Pinto (Università di Salerno)
Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking at Tomorrow
Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica di Milano), Anna De Paoli (Università di Milano Bicocca),
Gilberto Turati (Università di Torino)
Does Hospital Competition Affect Citizens’ Perceived Health?
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Elisabetta Olivieri (Banca d'Italia)
War and Obesity: the Role of Eating Habits
C.2
Youth in the labour market
Chair: Lavinia Parisi (Università di Salerno)
Francesco Pastore, Luca Giuliani (Seconda Università di Napoli)
The Determinant of Youth Disadvantage. A Panel Data Analysis
Simona Comi (Università di Milano Bicocca), Mara Grasseni (Università di Bergamo)
The Reform of Apprenticeship in Italy: Winners and Losers
Chiara Mussida (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Dario Sciulli (Università “G. d’Annunzio” di ChietiPescara)
The Trend over time of the labour market opportunities of young people in Italy
Mazzotta Fernanda, Lavinia Parisi (Università di Salerno)
The Effect of Marriage and Employment on Leaving Home in Italy
C.3
Education, training and employment
Chair: Antonio Di Paolo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Ylenia Brilli (European University Institute), Marco Tonello (Banca d'Italia)
Rethinking the Crime Reducing Effect of Education: the Role of Social Capital and Organized Crime
Gianluca Argentin, Simona Comi (Università di Milano Bicocca), Federica Origo (Università di Bergamo),
Laura Pagani (Università di Milano Bicocca)
Is it What You Know or What you Do? The Effect of Teachers’ Digital Skills and Practices on Student
Achievement
Barbara Baldazzi, Liana Verzicco (ISTAT)
The Adults Participation in Lifelong Learning in Italy
Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica di Milano), Antonio Di Paolo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Changes in the Language of Instruction and Returns to Schooling in a Bilingual Labour Market
C.4
Labour market institutions
Chair: Giuseppe Croce (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Paola Biasi (Università di Firenze)
Does Employment Protection Deter FDI? An Empirical Study on OECD Countries
Alberto Chilosi (Università di Pisa)
Long-Term Unemployment in the Varieties of Capitalism
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx (Ghent University)
The Effects of Employers' Wage Subsidies on the Employment of Older Workers. A Natural Experiment
Giuseppe Croce (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Collective Bargaining over Welfare and Wage. Labour Market Implications and Economic Rationales of
Bilateral Sectoral Funds
C.5
Income distribution and poverty
Chair: Marco Leonardi (Università di Milano)
Roberto Fantozzi, Michele Raitano (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Political Cycle and Declared Labour Incomes in Italy: a Quasi-experimental Evidence on Tax Evasion
Antonio Bassanetti (IMF), Concetta Rondinelli, Filippo Scoccianti (Banca d'Italia)
On the Structure of Italian Households' Consumption Patterns During the Recent Crises
Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica di Milano), Marco Leonardi (Università di Milano)
Earnings Instability and Tenure
C.6
Institutions, social capital and policy
Chair: Paolo Naticchioni (Università di Roma Tre)
Marcial Sánchez Mosquera (Universidad de Sevilla)
Trade Unions, Social Dialogue and Employment in Western Europe, from Concertation to Confrontation.
The Spanish Case, 1996-2013
Giovanna D’Adda (University of Birmingham), Guido de Blasio (Banca d'Italia)
Historical Legacy and Policy Effectiveness: the Long-Term Influence of pre-Unification Borders in Italy
Elisabetta Addis (Università di Sassari)
Social Capital, Gender and the Labour Market
Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D’Ignazio, Guido de Blasio (Banca d'Italia), Paolo Naticchioni (Università di
Roma Tre)
Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives’ Political Preferences
18.30 – 19.00
20.00
AIEL MEMBERS ANNUAL MEETING
Social dinner at Chiostro del Carmine
FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2014
UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA
POLO PIAGGE, VIA GIACOMO MATTEOTTI, 3 - PISA
9.00 - 11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS D
D.1 Migration and human capital
Chair: Gianna Claudia Giannelli (Università di Firenze)
Claudio Fassio, Fabio Montobbio, Alessandra Venturini (Università di Torino)
Innovation and Human Capital: Age, Skills and Ethnicity. A Study on France, Germany and UK
Sandra Nieto, Alessia Matano, Raúl Ramos (Universitat de Barcelona)
Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives
Timm Bönke, Guido Neidhöfer (Freie Universität Berlin)
When Parental Background Matters: The Intergenerational Mobility and Assimilation of Italian
Immigrants in Germany
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Chiara Rapallini (Università di Firenze)
Immigrant Pupils’ Performance in Maths: Does it Matter Where One is From?
D.2 Cross-country analysis
Chair: Giovanna Vallanti (LUISS)
Sergio Destefanis (Università di Salerno), Giuseppe Mastromatteo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milano)
Age and Gender in and Out the EU. A Difference-in-Difference Assessment
Maria Laura Parisi, Enrico Marelli (Università di Brescia), Olga Demidova (Higher School of Economics,
Moskow
Labour Productivity of Young and Adult Temporary Workers: a Cross-country Analysis
Giovanna Vallanti (LUISS)
International Capital Mobility and Unemployment Dynamics: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries
D.3 Personnel
Chair: Maria De Paola (Università della Calabria)
Manuel Bagues (Aalto University), Mauro Sylos Labini (Università di Pisa), Natalia Zinovyeva (Aalto
University)
Does the Gender Composition of Evaluation Committees Matter? Evidence from Italian Academia
Luca Fumarco (Linnaeus University)
Identifying Long-term Economic Effects of Relative Age. The Case of Serie A
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin (Universidad Publica de Navarra)
Performance Pay and Education: The Role of Risk Attitudes
Daniele Checchi (Università di Milano), Gianni De Fraja (University of Nottingham), Stefano Verzillo
(Università di Milano)
Publish or Perish: Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
Maria De Paola (Università della Calabria), Michela Ponzo (Univeristà di Napoli Federico II), Vincenzo
Scoppa (Università della Calabria)
Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
D.4 Education and skill mismatch
Chair: Daniela Sposato (Università della Calabria)
Sara Flisi, Valentina Goglio, Elena Claudia Meroni, Esperanza Vera-Toscano (European Commission)
Measuring Occupational Mismatch: Overeducation and Overskill in Europe. Evidence from PIAAC
Gianluca Argentin, Marco Gui, Laura Pagani, Luca Stanca (Università di Milano Bicocca)
The Effects of Digital Literacy on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Performance Tests
Emanuele Ciani, Guido de Blasio (Banca d’Italia)
Getting Stable: An Evaluation of the Incentives for Permanent Contracts in Italy
Patrizia Ordine, Giuseppe Rose, Daniela Sposato (Università della Calabria)
Gift of Time and Family Gift: The Effect of Early School Entry on Pupils Performance
D.5 Wage mobility
Chair: Claudia Vittori (University of Bath)
Irene Brunetti, Davide Fiaschi (Università di Pisa)
Occupational Mobility between Generations: a Theoretical Model with an Application to Italy
Sauro Mocetti (Banca d’Italia)
Dynasties in Professions: The Role of Rents
Paola Naddeo, Stefania Cardinaleschi, Stefano De Santis (ISTAT)
Age Wage Premium and Collective Bargaining in Italy
Paul Gregg (University of Bath), Lindsey Macmillan (University of London), Claudia Vittori (University of
Bath)
Moving Towards Estimating Lifetime Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the UK
D.6 The Italian and the Spanish labour market (jointly AIEL-AEET)
Chair: Dario Sciulli (Università di Chieti-Pescara)
Tindara Addabbo (Università di Modena & Reggio Emilia), Rosa García-Fernández, Carmen LlorcaRodríguez (University of Granada), Anna Maccagnan (Università di Bologna)
Labour Force Heterogeneity and Wage Polarization: Italy and Spain
The Impact of Austerity on Women's Work in Italy and Spain
Virginia Hernanz (Universidad de Alcalá), Mario Izquierdo (Banco de España)
Worker Turnover and Regional Unemployment in Spain
Miguel A. Malo (University of Salamanca), Dario Sciulli (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Begoña Cueto
(University of Oviedo)
Long-term Impacts of Easing Temporary Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain Using
Birth Cohorts
Lina Gálvez-Muñoz, Paula Rodríguez-Modroño (Pablo de Olavide University), Tindara Addabbo
(Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
The Impact of Austerity on Women's Work in Italy and Spain
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30 PLENARY SESSION ON “POLICY”
DANIELE CHECCHI (UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO)
EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND INCOME INEQUALITY
MICHELE PELLIZZARI (UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA)
THE COMPETENCES OF ITALIAN ADULTS: EVIDENCE FROM PIAAC
Presentation and introduction by Marco Leonardi (Università di Milano)
12.30 – 13.00
TARANTELLI PRIZE FOR THE BEST PAPER FROM THE XXVIII AIEL CONFERENCE
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00
Conference ends