Recent evolutions of gender, state feminism and care models in Latin America and Europe

Production of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004This chapter presents and characterises the way in which, in the twenty-first century, after years of feminist struggles inside and outside of institutions, gender relations are organised in the different countries of the INCASI project (on the European side, Spain, Italy, Finland, France and the United Kingdom, on the side of the South American Southern Cone, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay). It pays special attention to the implementation of feminist issues on political agendas, and in particular the assignment of women to unpaid care work-an aspect of the power continuum that we look to relate to other aspects. Gradually and for almost a century all countries in both continents have granted women the status of subjects, citizens and employees. However, the conditions, challenges and timelines of this process differ considerably from one continent to another, so they need to be addressed separately. The neoliberal era did not have the same impact in Europe as it did in South America (nor was it exactly the same between particular European countries or among South American ones)

Trade and labour markets. Vertical and regional differentiation in Italy

The labour market misfortunes of the less skilled and rapid growth of international trade in manufactured goods with less advanced countries are linked by the paradoxical observation that trade theorists are in the forefront of those denying the importance of trade in income distribution. This paper analyses this conclusion by stressing the importance of vertical differentiation of trade flows and regional differentiation of skills in order to identify labour market effects of trade integration. Vertical and regional differentiation in trade and labour markets are analysed for a country, Italy, where these two elements seem to play a crucial role. The results show a likely displacement effect on unskilled labour due to trade flows with less advanced countries. Given the characteristics of Italian trade and labour markets, a stronger trade-induced displacement effect on demand for unskilled labour takes place in the North of the country. Thus the vertical differentiation in Italian intra-industry trade is a warning against understating the effect of trade on labour markets if product heterogeneity is not adequately considered. The regional differentiation of skill intensity is another warning against understating the effect of trade on labour markets whenever cross-sectoral effects and the change in relative specialization are not adequately considered. JEL F02, F11, F14, F1

Teaching, visibility and scholarly production: a gender-based inquiry into a case of professorship competition in Italy

Quantitative analysis on a wide and important case of academic competition in Economics. The approach is gender based. The focus is primarily on the recruitment though there is an effort to look also at the structure of the Academy in economic disciplines. Anglo-Saxon, and especially American, literature has been delving into the relationship between women and the labor market for more than thirty years. Some attention has also been given to the relative position of women in the academic hierarchy. Italy and - with some exceptions - the rest of Europe seem to be completely absent from the latter debate. Thus, results of the American institutional context have been extensively generalized. The aim of this paper is to offer a different scenario for the field of Economics in Italy. This study is a quantitative analysis of training, teaching and scholarly publications of 277 Italian economists; i.e. a group that applied for the pre-last competition carried out for tenure track positions as Associate Professor in Economics. A gender disaggregation is explicitly used, with the aim of understanding which additional information a similar perspective would reveal

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Dynamic Capabilities Between Firm Organization and Local Systems of Production

Changes in technology and demand require firms to learn how to continuously reshape unique and non-imitable resources and competences. A firm\u2019s capacity to achieve this is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities. This book offers an analysis of how firms manage to reconfigure their pool of idiosyncratic resources, skills and competencies to deal with the highly turbulent environments in which they are embedded, thus tackling the issue of how dynamic capabilities must be defined and conceptualized. This book brings together several contributions aimed at showing how firms\u2019 differential exploitation of their dynamic capabilities comes to be highly dependent on the role of socio-territorial entities and on the institutional set up. Thus, different formal and informal types of organization are observed at different levels of analysis. In so doing, the book aims at conveying a transversal perspective to the analysis of firms\u2019 dynamics, calling for a multidisciplinary and multilayer approach