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

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

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

BeppoSAX observations of XTE J1946+274

We report on the BeppoSAX monitoring of a giant outburst of the transient X-ray pulsar XTE J1946+274 in 1998. The source was detected with a flux of ~ 4 x 10^(-9) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1) (in 0.1 - 120 keV range). The broadband spectrum, typical for accreting pulsars, is well described by a cutoff power law with a cyclotron resonance scattering feature (CRSF) at ~ 38 keV. This value is consistent with earlier reports based on the observations with Suzaku at factor of ten lower luminosity, which implies that the feature is formed close to the neutron star surface rather than in the accretion column. Pulsations with P ~ 15.82 s were observed up to ~ 70 keV. The pulse profile strongly depends on energy and is characterised by a "soft" and a "hard" peaks shifted by half period, which suggests a strong phase dependence of the spectrum, and that two components with roughly orthogonal beam patterns are responsible for the observed pulse shape. This conclusion is supported by the fact that the CRSF, despite its relatively high energy, is only detected in the spectrum of the soft peak of the pulse profile. Along with the absence of correlation of the line energy with luminosity, this could be explained in the framework of the recently proposed "reflection" model for CRSF formation. However more detailed modelling of both line and continuum formation are required to confirm this interpretation

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

The Eurasia Network: Riding the Conspiracist Tiger in Contemporary Italy

The aim of this chapter is to describe the production and diffusion of conspiracy theories by a heterogenous network of intellectuals grouped around Prof. Claudio Mutti. The network analysed proposes a political syncretism, merging elements of the extreme right and the extreme left with epistemological syncretism, merging social sciences with religious and esoteric interpretations. The main conspiracy theories diffused by this network are those concerning: 1) contemporary migration flows; 2) Jewish ideology; 3) gender; and 4) geopolitical events. Finally, this chapter will underline the continuities between conspiracism, religion and the social and human sciences, showing that conspiracism does not correspond to irrational thinking, but rather possesses a specific form of reasoning rooted in European anti-modernism

ESOTERICISATION AND DE-ESOTERICISATION OF SUFISM: THE AḤMADIYYA-IDRĪSIYYA SHĀDHILIYYA IN ITALY

In this article I will analyse the Sufi order Aḥmadiyya-Idrīsiyya Shādhiliyya based in Milan, ­established by Abd al-Wahid Pallavicini in the 1980s. This is one of the most important Sufi ­orders in Italy, and it is engaged in interreligious dialogue activities and institutional relations with Italian political actors. I will argue that this Sufi order has experienced a process of ­esotericisation, ­“Western”-style, in the sense that: 1) it was shaped by the “forms of thought” of the French ­esotericist René ­Guénon; 2) following Hanegraaff’s and von Stuckrad’s definitions, it embodies both a rejected and an ­absolute knowledge; and 3) it is characterised by a sectarian organisational structure, which has distanced it from other Islamic communities. Starting from the 2010s, this Sufi order has been living through a process of “de-esotericisation,” following the same sense outlined before, in that the absolute knowledge is gradually opening up to other forms of esoteric knowledge and the sectarian dimensions are gradually fading, allowing a dialogue with other Islamic communities