Comparable Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Italy

This paper examines the degree of intergenerational economic mobility in Italy. It adds to the growing number of international studies of the extent to which economic status is passed on across generations. On the basis of recent econometric innovations used in the literature, I am able to overcome some of the data limitations for Italy. I use the Historical Database of the Bank of Italy households survey, which contains information from 1977 to 2002. Retrospective information in the repeated cross-sections may be exploited by applying a two-sample two stage least squares estimation. I estimate the intergenerational income elasticity for Italy and find that mobility is limited. From an overall comparison, the evidence provided in this paper hints at Italy in the low-mobility group among advanced societies in the range of values characterising the US and the UK. The analysis of the results allows a characterization of interesting descriptive features in the transmission of economic status in Italy.Intergenerational income mobility; two-sample two-stage least squares; mobility patterns.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at the very top of the earnings distribution, and to the presence of self-employment income and the number of employers with which the father has had direct contact. It has an important influence in determining nonlinear patterns in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.intergenerational mobility, job search

Un approccio di tipo Software-radio per la realizzazione di un terminale ricevente VHF marittimo

Si parlerà del sistema GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System) il sistema vigente per il soccorso e la sicurezza della vita umana in mare. Si analizzerà inoltre, in maniera particolare, un componente del GMDSS, ossia il DSC, acronimo di Digital Selective Calling, illustrandone il funzionamento, le specifiche ed i vantaggi. Sarà illustrato il progetto e la realizzazione di un ricevitore VHF-DSC utilizzando la tecnologia SDR (Software Defined Radio) che permette, agendo semplicemente su programmi software senza modificare la piattaforma hardware, di riconfigurare il sistema in modo che possa riuscire ad operare in qualsiasi contesto trasmissivo e supportare diverse funzionalità

Il fatto nella motivazione dell'atto amministrativo

il lavoro evidenzia la rilevanza formale, ma soprattutto sostanziale, della motivazione nell'atto amministrativo, focalizzandone i caratteri relativamente ai fatti che l'azione amministrativa accerta, acquisisce e valuta nella formazione del giudizio

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their fathers but this is positively related to paternal earnings and rises discretely at the top of the distribution. We use a switching regression model and identify two regimes associated with the inheritance of employers that have different intergenerational earnings elasticities. The model also demonstrates that the inheritance of employers plays a role in understanding observed nonlinearities.intergenerational mobility, job search, networks

The broad band spectral properties of binary X-ray pulsars

The X-ray telescopes on board BeppoSAX are an optimal set of instruments to observe bright galactic binary pulsars. These sources emit very hard and quite complex X-ray spectra that can be accurately measured with BeppoSAX between 0.1 and 200 keV. A prototype of this complexity, the source Her X-1, shows at least seven different components in its spectrum. A broad band measure is therefore of paramount importance to have a thorough insight into the physics of the emitting region. Moreover the detection of cyclotron features, when present, allows a direct and highly significant measure of the magnetic field intensity in the emission region. In this paper we briefly report the results obtained with BeppoSAX on this class of sources, with emphasis on the detection and on the measured properties of the cyclotron lines.Comment: 10 Latex pages, 4 figures, uses psfig.sty. Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research, in Proceedings of 32nd Scientific Assembly of COSPAR - Symposium E1.1: "Broad-Band X-ray Spectroscopy of Cosmic Sources

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