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Poster to present the italian activities in the framework of the ABRESO project at the final conference of the Life project PastorAlp at Forte di Bard, Aosta, 15-17 March 2023.
Abstract This paper investigates the effectiveness of a small experimental pilot addressed to foreign adolescents with low language skills and high dropout risk in lower secondary school in Turin, North-West Italy. The intervention aims at reducing Early School Leaving while supporting standard school curricula. In order to facilitate students’ re-...
Impact assessment studies rarely address Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) policies. Main reasons lie in empirical and methodological problems, lack of both data sources and reliable models. In fact, quantifying the impact of complex interventions requires complex evaluation designs as well.
This article illustrates the feasibility of an evaluat...
Power system controls are vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can seriously affect and even inhibit their operation. Such attacks may affect large portions of the power system, make repair difficult and cause huge societal impact, so pressure to ensure cyber-security of control and communication systems is now strong worldwide. Several cyber-security...
Dans un contexte de fortes contraintes budgétaires pour les collectivités territoriales, la question de l’efficacité des politiques menées est un sujet d’actualité. L’évaluation des politiques publiques de développement territorial fait l’objet de nombreux travaux académiques en sciences humaines et sociales. Or, de nombreux problèmes méthodologiqu...
Administrative data and regional policy evaluation
Impact assessment of labour or human capital policies is usually based on direct surveys of treated individuals. The net impact should be estimated observing untreated individuals which are very similar to the treated group. However, the high cost of implementation does not allow to use large sampl...
Si tratta della sesta edizione dell’analisi del placement della Formazione Professionale. Tale analisi risponde all’incarico di valutazione indipendente del Programma Operativo Re-gionale (POR) del Fondo Sociale Europeo (FSE) 2014-2020 della Regione Piemonte all'IRES-Piemonte, ma coglie anche l’occasione dell’incarico per avviare lo studio della re...
In evaluating a policy, it is fundamental to represent its multiple dimensions and the targets it affects. Indeed, the impact of a policy generally involves a combination of socio-economic aspects that are difficult to represent. In this study, regional training policies are addressed, which are aimed at closing the huge gaps in employability and s...
L’articolo intende proporre una riflessione sugli specifici contributi in termini di apprendimento che possono essere innescati da una valutazione ciclica di un programma o intervento pubblico. Il caso proposto e quello dell’indagine di Placement della Formazione Professionale in Regione Piemonte, svolta dal 2011 al 2014. Attraverso una lettura dia...
Migration and work are truly connected notions in the European social model. Work is a pillar of active citizenship and a fundamental step in individuals’ self-construction. In such framework, vocational education and training (Vet) represent a twofold integration channel, combining both education and work paths. In Italy, the role of Vet is partic...
This paper investigates the labour market outcomes of a representative sample of unemployed individuals attending regional vocational training programs in Piedmont, North-West Italy. In particular, it proposes a multivariate analysis to describe and assess the effects of individual social networks (family, friends and acquaintance) on trainees' emp...
Il paper analizza il ruolo del Programma di Sviluppo Rurale nel supportare il settore agroindustriale piemontese attraverso una valutazione ex post con metodo controfattuale quasi sperimentale. Il matching e realizzato con il recente algoritmo Coarsened Exact Matching (Blackwell et al., 2009). I risultati indicano nel medio periodo caratteristiche...
The impact assessment of social and labour policies is mainly based on direct inquiry on their recipients. In the case of net impact assessments, one has to observe a group of untreated individuals that is very homogeneous with respect to the treated. However, the very high cost of direct surveys limits their scope, as it prevents large sample size...
In the field of public policies there is a lot of interest in vocational training issues, because of spillovers in the labour market as well as on quality of life. Reports by the European Commission show that women are disadvantaged subjects in the labour market but, at the same time, they are more ambitious and achieve best results from an educati...
This paper aims at analysing the role played by the Rural Development Programme in supporting the agro-food industry in Piedmont (Italy). This is a first attempt to design an ex-post quasi experimental counterfactual evaluation of the net impact of the subsidy. The counterfactual has been selected by adopting the Coarsened Exact Matching technique,...
The paper presents an impact assessment of vocational training courses, which the Piedmont Region co-financed by the ESF, both discussing the methodological feasibility and proposing a quasi-experimental evaluation strategy based on the medium-term job placement of vocational training students. The authors illustrate the operational design and the...
When evaluating vocational training programmes, increasing restrictions in funding opportunities and growing difficulties for young people and other disadvantaged groups to enter the labour market are arousing the evaluators’ attention from human capital accumulation to effectiveness in terms of employability. Notwithstanding the growing interest,...
Fuel price and availability are, of course, relevant to determining the diffusion patterns of vehicles. The example of natural gas (CNG) cars, whose wide distribution was hampered by the poor development of the refuelling station network, is well known. But in the case of electric vehicles it is even more important to consider the question, because...
The many intrinsic (economic, physical and engineering) characteristics substantially differentiate the electrical sector from both other commodities and other public utility services. Within this context, the strategic «gaming» of the operators can generate results that are far from competitive efficiency standards. The main purpose of this articl...
Technical education and training is now interested by a reform process, trying to integrate the different paths that a student can follow to get a technical degree: the professional schools and training courses. Another challenge is that of integrating in the new system the lessons coming from best innovative practices in the field of the fight to...
After a review of the governance of welfare policies and of subsidiarity experiences in the third sector, the Social Agency Model is proposed. It integrates in a structured way public and private action against poorness, above all the activity of the third sector. The model is based on the following principles: policies centred on the person throug...
One of the most important aspects that may affect market welfare is that related to the low demand responsiveness to price. This situation may greatly impact the market performance causing low efficiency, high prices and a disproportional allocation of surpluses.The structure of electricity markets is usually oligopolistic; producers may bid prices...
Des études menées au cours des années quatre-vingt-dix sur certains districts italiens du textile ont montré que l'intensification de la concurrence et les conséquences négatives qui en résultent avaient conduit à une intensification de la compétition au sein des districts et à un affaiblissement de la coopération. Nos propres travaux menés sur deu...
Industrial district are often described as systems of firms in static equilibrium, in which changes in the environment or in the power of stakeholders can break the cooperation mechanism and lead to the crisis and even death of the district. The authors analyse two industrial districts, Biella in Italy and Grasse in France, in which the worsening o...
Competition has been introduced in the electricity markets with the goal of reducing prices and improving efficiency. The basic idea which stays behind this choice is that, in competitive markets, a greater quantity of the good is exchanged at a lower price, leading to higher market efficiency. Electricity markets are pretty different from other co...
Competition has been introduced in the electricity markets with the goal of reducing prices and improving efficiency. The basic idea which stays behind this choice is that, in competitive markets, a greater quantity of the good is exchanged at a lower and a lower price, leading to higher market efficiency. Electricity markets are pretty different f...
Rolfo) Turin, 03 June 2002 ICT do not follow the same diffusion patterns in all industrial districts. There are a number of differences in the way these technologies are used. Industrial specialisation, location, average firm size can help in explaining these differences, above all when considering specific technologies, but they are not exhaustive...
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In the competitive electricity markets, information plays a major role; different distributions of information among the market players may impact the market outcomes in terms of prices and surpluses. In this paper we present a model based on the Independent Private Value auction theory to analyze the strategic interaction among producers in the el...
The competitiveness of a territory is more and more explained by factors that combine technological innovation, recognized as a key element of the competitive advantage of an economic system, with knowledge, creativity, and sometimes even art and culture. In some areas of ancient industrialization we can find at local level a social capital that is...
