Purpose The purpose of this paper is to check the existence of the added worker effect
(AWE) in Italy during the Great Recession. Design/methodology/approach The authors used …

Introduction An educational mismatch is defined as the situation where the education
qualifications of an employee do not match the qualifications required for the job they do. A …

We investigate the attachment to the labour market of women in their 30s, who are
combining career and family choices, through their reactions to an exogenous, and …

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the share of inactive individuals in 2020 in Italy, mostly at
the expense of permanent and fix-term employment. We document sizable asymmetric …

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in economic and political debates.
Although this interest is welcome, the debate is still mostly focused on income or wealth …

This paper evaluates the wage effects of a tax credit policy on new hirings in Southern Italy.
We use high-quality administrative data and propose a latent class inverse probability …

Economic inequality is one of the key issues concerning economic performance and
development. The “distribution” aspects were considered crucial by classical economists …

Using a macro–micro econometric framework that allows studying the labour market
dynamics, this paper offers an in-depth investigation of the structures of both national and …