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- Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates: The role of personality traits(Inapp, 2022-04-30) Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, SergioIt is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and skill mismatch is scant. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the five main personality traits (Big 5) on educational and skill mismatch in Italian graduates. To this aim, we use the 2018 wave of the Inapp-PLUS survey, which contains information on skill mismatch, on the Big 5 personality traits, and on a large number of other individual and job-specific characteristics.
- Educational mismatches, routine biased technological change and unemployment: evidence from Italy(2020-05-20) Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, SergioThis paper investigates the relation between educational mismatches and individual unemployment risk in Italy with a special focus on the role of technological change and labour demand characteristics. A novel dataset obtained merging two surveys (ICP and PLUS) is used to build different measures of educational mismatch and a measure of routine intensity on Italy: the Routine Task Index. The latter takes into account the effect of Routine Biased Technical Change (RBTC) in determining educational mismatches and unemployment risk. The results indicate that over−education is significantly associated with higher unemployment risk.
- Gli internauti e i lavoratori on line: prime evidenze da INAPP-PLUS 2018(Inapp, 2019-12-15) De Minicis, Massimo; Esposito, Piero; Marsiglia, Salvatore; Marocco, Manuel; Scicchitano, SergioLe labour platform rappresentano un mercato ‘virtuale’ in cui si svolgono ‘reali’ interazioni economiche che si sviluppano accanto, o separatamente, a quelle off line. Nell’edizione 2018 dell’indagine Inapp‐Plus (Participation, Labour, Unemployment, Survey) sono state inserite delle domande volte a rilevare le caratteristiche e le motivazioni della popolazione italiana coinvolta in questo complesso fenomeno globale.
- Immigration and unemployment in Europe: does the core-periphery dualism matter?(2019-06-03) Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, SergioThe migrant crisis is one of the most challenging tasks the EU has ever faced. In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction Model to assess the direction and persistence of the impact of immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to substantial heterogeneity. As for short-run dynamics, we find a confirmation of the result that immigration reduces unemployment for the whole sample.
- L'effetto del mismatch e del routine bias technical change sul rischio di disoccupazione in Italia(2019-06-21) Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, SergioIl progresso tecnologico ha indotto cambiamenti sostanziali nella struttura dell'occupazione, determinando una crescente obsolescenza delle competenze, con un disallineamento tra competenze e compiti. Di conseguenza, una delle sfide più importanti per i policy makers nell'attuale era digitale è comprendere la natura e le conseguenze del mismatch e adottare politiche mirate. Di qui la necessità di studiare il ruolo dello skill-mismatch e del progresso tecnologico Routine Bias (RBTC) sul rischio di disoccupazione in Italia. Le analisi empiriche utilizzano la componente panel dell’ultima wave dell’indagine INAPP-PLUS.
- Lavoratori immigrati e nativi in Europa: complementari o sostituti(2019-10-14) Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, SergioSulla base della letteratura economica internazionale e di un recente articolo scientifico empirico (realizzato dagli autori della presentazione su complementarità/sostituibilità tra lavoratori nativi e immigrati), l'intervento propone dati ed elementi utili a delineare la relazione che intercorre tra immigrazione e disoccupazione in Europa.
- Skill mismatch, routine bias technical change and unemployment: evidence from Italy(2019-09-12) Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, SergioIn this article we assess the role of educational mismatch on unemployment risk for secondary and tertiary educated workers, taking into account the interrelation between skills and routine biased Technical Change (RBTC). We use the panel component of the INAPP- Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS) for the years 2014-2016-2018 to construct different measures of skill mismatch and we merge it with the INAPP Survey on Italian Occupations (ICP) an O*NET-type survey from which we build a Routine Task Index (RTI).
- What drives employment-unemployment transitions? Evidence from Italian task-based data(2020-07-23) Cassandro, Nicola; Centra, Marco; Esposito, Piero; Guarascio, DarioRelying on a unique longitudinal integrated database supplying micro-level information on labor market transitions (concerning the 2011-2017 period) and occupation task characteristics (e.g. routine-task intensity), this paper provides fresh evidence of the determinants of unemployment risk in Italy. We find that workers employed in routineintensive occupations do not display – on average – higher unemployment risks than the rest of the workforce. However, on distinguishing between cognitive and manual tasks, it turns out that workers employed in occupations entailing a large proportion of routine cognitive tasks (such as workers employed in service occupations as cashiers or call-center operators) are in fact exposed to a relatively higher risk of becoming unemployed.