Measuring poverty within and between population subgroups

In this paper we propose a decomposition of the Foster, Greer, Thorbecke (FGT) class of poverty indexes into two additive components (namely, poverty within groups and poverty between groups) when both a community-wide threshold and a specific poverty line for each subgroup of population is used. The aim is to suggest an integrated perspective that takes into account both group-specific and overall living conditions, and allows us to throw light on the relative well-being conditions of specific subgroups of population as well as of the entire society. The paper is complemented with an empirical application of the suggested methodology based on the European Community Household Panel.poverty measurement ; FGT index ; subgroup poverty lines

Web based methodologies and techniques to monitor electronic resources use in university libraries

The aim of this paper is to measure user satisfaction and the quality of the electronic resources consultation services offered by the Milano Bicocca University Library

Web based methodologies and techniques to monitor electronic resources use in university libraries

The aim of this paper is to measure user satisfaction and the quality of the electronic resources consultation services offered by the Milano Bicocca University Library

Companies, Competences and Graduates' Selection Process: An attempt to Quality

The assessment of the employment potential of University graduates represents a direct evolution of the quality evaluation higher education system..This paper aims to identify competences that companies, which subscribed Vulcano-database, require when selecting graduates for employment. Our analysis consists of two parts: one in which a quantitative score is associated through a Rasch analysis to the companies’ interest with respect to four classes of characteristics and competences they take into consideration when selecting candidates. In the second part, we apply a segmentation analysis to check whether there is correspondence between companies that prefer certain university degrees and the interest levels towards the characteristics and competences so quantified

Estimating University Human Capital through Growth Models

Our paper focuses on the law of growth of the human capital deriving from the evaluation of undergraduates’ human capital due to university education. For this purpose, we introduce the definition of University Human Capital (UHC), a kind of human capital that sums up to other kinds of human capital and that acts, for the concerned companies, as a detector of competences owned by graduates. It follows that UHC can be interpreted also as a component of the “intellectual capital” that characterizes the different kinds of enterprises. UHC individual growth trajectories are to be established by means of two-level growth models. We attempt to synthesize the law of individual UHC growth through both a logistic and a Gompertz function

Becoming economically independent

This paper analyses patterns of behaviours of about three thousand graduates in some northern and central Italian universities. Different approaches to the job market and/or to further qualifications are followed up during the year after graduation and are related both to some choices adopted previously at university and to family traits, by means of longitudinal methods of Event History Analysis (EHA). Apparent behavioural inertia from college to postgraduate period reveals a commonly shared underlying attitude. Also, family influence seems well conveyed by parents\u27 educational levels, which emphasize the mothers\u27 role in improving graduates qualifications and the fathers\u27 function in involving their children in self employment