Sergio Scicchitano

John Cabot University · Department of Economics

This paper investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its impact on various socio-economic groups and adopting a spatial perspective. Our study tests the hypothesis that technological shifts, specifically routine biased technological change (RBTC), and the expansion of household substituti...

Purpose This work analyses how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors moderate such relationship. Design/methodology/approach The study makes use of the 2018 wave of the Participation, Labour, Unemployment Survey (PLUS) from Inapp. The richness of the survey and the r...

Using Italian Labour Force Survey data for the period 2019Q1-2020Q4 and apply- ing quantile regression model accounting for sample selection bias, the paper inves- tigates the effects of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wage distribu- tion of employees, exploiting differences across sectors and by working from home arrangement. The fi...

L’imprenditoria è un’attività fondamentale per sostenere e promuovere lo sviluppo economico di un Paese, l’innovazione, creare posti di lavoro e rendere più ricca, in termini globali, la società. Lo studio della mentalità imprenditoriale, che ha coinvolto esperti di molteplici discipline, ha permesso di individuare una serie di strategie euristiche...

The COVID pandemic that took the world economy by surprise at the beginning of 2020 brought many drastic changes to the way individuals carry on their daily lives. One that will have long-lasting effects, even after the spread of the virus is contained, is a shift toward flexible work arrangements, including remote work options. Initially implement...

Il Rapporto Inapp 2022 intende dare un contributo alla costruzione di una base conoscitiva che possa costituire un punto di riferimento per coloro che disegnano e attuano le politiche del lavoro e per tutti coloro che operano nel mondo del lavoro. Nel campo del mercato del lavoro vanno interpretati e risolti i nuovi problemi che si presentano prin...

It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that noncognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and skill mismatch is scant. In this paper, we investigate the...

Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce individual mobility in order to slow the diffusion of COVID-19. The first measures imposed by the central authorities on March 8, 2020, were unanticipated and highly localized, focusing on 26 provinces. Additional nationwide measures were imposed after one day, and were rem...

Il presente volume si colloca in continuità con precedenti rapporti di ricerca realizzati nell’ambito della Struttura Imprese e Lavoro dell’Inapp, focalizzando l’attenzione su alcune misure di policy che hanno caratterizzato l’esperienza recente del nostro Paese in tema di imprese, di lavoro e di contrasto alla povertà (e riduzione della disuguagli...

The Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) has been regarded as a relatively novel technology-based explanation of social changes affecting job and wage polarization. In this paper, we investigate wage inequality between routine and non-routine workers along the wage distribution in Italy. Thanks to unique survey data, we can estimate the wage...

Il fenomeno delle dimissioni dal lavoro aumentate sopra i livelli usuali degli anni pre-Covid sta attirando l’attenzione di studiosi e analisti appartenenti a diverse branche di studio, dagli economisti ai giuristi del lavoro, passando per i sociologi.

We studied which European Union (EU) economy was more attractive prior to Brexit for employees in supervisory positions. We estimate the extra wage that supervisors earn relative to their subordinates—the wage premium to supervision (WPS)—at different quantiles of distribution of wages for 26 European economies. We find that the UK rewards supervis...

This study analyses the relationship between the local density of occupations at risk to be performed from home (WFH), the adoption of second level bargaining agreements and the firms’ propensity to invest in innovation. Applying simple non-linear regression models we demonstrate the following results. First, the concentration of WFH in local marke...

Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than natives. Over the last few years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants...

This paper analyzes the relationship among occupations at risk to be performed from home (WFH), workers' characteristics, and the evolution of wages. To this aim, we use a dataset which integrates information on the task-content of occupations (ICP-Inapp survey), flow data on activations and terminations of contractual work arrangements (SISCO-MLPS...

This paper investigates the relationship between educational mismatch and individual unemployment risk in Italy. By testing the theoretical framework of career mobility theory, we look at the labour market transitions of employees and assess whether and to what extent mismatched workers have a higher probability of falling into an unemployment trap...

We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes –that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the XI century– on various proxies for current cooperative labor relations f...

The COVID pandemic that took the world economy by surprise at the beginning of 2020 brought many drastic changes to the way individuals carry on their daily lives. One that will have long lasting effects, even after the spread of the virus is contained, is a shift towards flexible work arrangements, including remote work options. Initially implemen...

The surge in the Working From Home (WFH) is changing the geography of work. In this study, we investigate how a permanent increase in WFH may affect the urban structure in Italy. We show that remote working has an asymmetric impact, with large cities more exposed to its possible adverse effects. We demonstrate that the share of workers able to work...

In this paper we explore the long run determinants of the emergence of family firms and different types of corporate governance. Using a representative sample of Italian firms, we show that higher current levels of trust, related to the experience of a free commune in the Middle Ages, are negatively related to the probability of being a family firm...

It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that noncognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and skill mismatch is scant. In this paper, we investigate the...

The present Policy Recommendations Report, last deliverable of the MOSPI project, is focused on testing a set of policy recommendations for reforming the social protection system and aimed at addressing inequalities in the context of a changing world of work.

Il presente articolo esamina l’andamento della domanda di lavoro di breve e brevissima durata nell’ultimo decennio in Italia. L’analisi è condotta con l’utilizzo dei dati amministrativi del Sistema informativo statistico delle comunicazioni obbligatorie (SISCO). I risultati mostrano che, a distanza ormai di cinque anni dalla fine della crisi econom...

We analyse how the adoption of technological innovations correlates with workers' perceived levels of job insecurity, and what factors mediate such relationship, by exploiting a recent, large and dedicated survey distributed to a representative sample of Italian workers. The dedicated survey allows us to look at both cognitive and affective job ins...

We analyze the task-content of occupations operating in about 600 sectors of the economy with a focus on the dimensions that expose workers to contagion risks during the COVID-19 epidemic. We do so in the Italian context, leveraging extremely detailed and granular information from ICP, the Italian equivalent of O*Net (the survey that describes the...

Nel lavoro indaghiamo su quanto i cambiamenti sopraggiunti nel Bonus Bebè tra il 2018 e il 2020 abbiano modificato il reddito disponibile delle famiglie con bambini e su quanto quest’ultimo sarebbe stato se la misura non fosse stata attuata. Approfondiremo, inoltre, alcuni dati relativi alla povertà e alla disuguaglianza, a seconda della implementa...

This paper evaluates if and to what extend the risk of becoming Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) has worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset from the merging of two sample surveys, the Italian Labor Force Survey and the Institutional Quality Index dataset. We find that the probability...

This paper investigates what happened to the wage distribution in Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows which categories of workers and economic sectors have suffered more than others and to what extent both the actual level of smart-working and the ability to Working From-Home can influence the wage distribution. We use a...

https://glabor.org/working-from-home-and-income-inequality-in-the-time-of-covid-19-glo-policy-note-no-4/

I am serving as Section Editor for "Covid-19" in the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6

In this paper, we use two different methods to compare changes in income polarization across different population groups (by gender, occupational status, education, age, residential area and state of birth) during the Great Recession in Italy. By using data from the latest wave of the Survey on Household Income and Wealth by the Bank of Italy, firs...

This study uses a counterfactual approach based on administrative registry data to evaluate the impact on youth employment of two selected demand-side public policies implemented in Italy in 2015: a rebate of social security costs (Law 190/2014, art. 1, c. 118) and a reduction in the costs to employers of firing employees (D. lgs n. 23/2015 under L...

https://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/ If you have a proposal, just drop me a line to: s.scicchitano@inapp.org

http://www.cfenetwork.org/CFE2021/organized.php The 15th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2021) will be host by King's College London, 18-20 December 2021 Panel Session CO466: The econometrics of Covid-19 pandemic - Organizer: Sergio Scicchitano If you have a proposal, just drop me a line to: s.scicchitan...

Social distancing has become worldwide the key public policy to be implemented during the COVID-19 epidemic and reducing the degree of proximity among workers turned out to be an important dimension. An emerging literature looks at the role of automation in supporting the work of humans but the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to influence...

In this paper we use two different non-parametric methods to disentangle the role of Great Recession on income polarization in Italy by population groups (gender, occupational status, education, age, residential area and state of birth). By using data from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth of the Bank of Italy, first, we decompose the Duclo...

The Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) has been called as a relatively novel technology-based explanation of social changes like job and wage polarization. In this paper we investigate the wage inequality between routine and non-routine workers along the wage distribution in Italy. Thanks to unique survey data, we can estimate the wage diff...

Journal of Population Economics. First Online October 2020. In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home (WFH) became of great importance for a large share of employees since it represents the only option to both continue working and minimize the risk of virus exposure. Uncertainty about the duration of the pandemic and future...

This paper evaluates if and to what extent the risk of becoming Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) has worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset obtained from the merging of two sample surveys, the Italian Labor Force Survey and the Institutional Quality Index dataset. We find that the pr...

Psychology, personal traits and quasi-rational behaviors are key factors for understanding labor market histories, management and human resource practices, firms’ choices, effectiveness of public policies and so on. The INAPP project “Strategic Analysis of the Public Policies” devotes increasing attention to this issue exploiting information from:...

New research area in economic psychology and behavioral economics using INAPP datasets •A collaboration with the University of Milano Bicocca •A contract on “Behavioral sciences applications to support new entrepreneurship” •Scientific coordinator for University of Milano Bicocca Professor Viale, I am the delegate of INAPP •Within the contract INAP...

Bonacini, L., Gallo, G. e Scicchitano, S. (2020), L'altra faccia dello smart-working, in Etica ed Economia, Nov. 2020. https://www.eticaeconomia.it/laltra-faccia-dello-smart-working/

Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between municipalities. One day later, new restrictive measures were introduced in the whole country with no regional distin...

Questo lavoro esplora il ruolo dell’attitudine allo smart working nella distribuzione del reddito da lavoro in Italia. I lavoratori con un’alta attitudine al lavoro agile hanno in media un vantaggio salariale del 10% rispetto ai lavoratori con una bassa attitudine allo smart working, che raggiunge il 17% tra i lavoratori con i redditi più alti. Si...

We analyse the content of Italian occupations operating in about 600 sectors with a focus on the dimensions that expose workers to risks during the COVID-19 epidemics. We leverage detailed information from ICP, the Italian equivalent of O*Net and find that several sectors need physical proximity to operate: the workers employed in sectors whose phy...

Il rapporto fornisce una descrizione dei principali fattori, tra cui globalizzazione e digitalizzazione, che hanno influenzato e stanno tuttora influenzando le dinamiche del mercato del lavoro. L’analisi sottolinea come i cambiamenti in atto possano, per un verso, creare opportunità di lavoro, migliorare la qualità dei lavori esistenti e aiutare i...

The analysis of wage distribution has attracted scholars from different disciplines seeking to develop theoretical arguments to explain the upward or downward trend. In particular, how the middle management wage premium changes in different contexts is a relatively neglected area of research. This study argues that wage distribution changes in diff...

Many countries are now designing exit strategies from the sectoral lockdowns put in place to contain the outbreak of Covid-19. This column provides new evidence from Italy on the degree of workplace risk of exposure to the virus. Unsurprisingly, the health sector is the most exposed to diseases and infections, while the services sector is the most...

Le informazioni sul rischio di contagio tra i lavoratori sono essenziali per individuare le attività da riaprire per prime e quelle in cui è necessario prevedere misure di sicurezza rafforzate. Lo smart working è poco diffuso nei settori oggi fermi.

https://www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/i-lavoratori-a-rischio-in-italia-durante-l-epidemia-da-covid-19/ A seconda dell’attività professionale svolta e delle caratteristiche del luogo di lavoro, alcuni lavoratori sono maggiormente soggetti a rischi di contagio da COVID-19, in particolare se operanti in prossimità fisica con altre persone (client...

We analyse the content of Italian occupations operating in about 600 sectors with a focus on the dimensions that expose workers to contagion risks during the COVID-19 epidemics. To do so we leverage extremely detailed and granular information from ICP, the Italian equivalent of O*Net. We find that several sectors need physical proximity to operate:...

The project Modernizing Social Protection Systems in Italy is created with the aim of promoting and supporting reforms that will improve Italian workers' access to the social protection system. In particular, following the changes in the labor market due to both the digitization and the aging of the population, the project pursues three objectives:...

The analysis of wage distribution has attracted scholars from different disciplines seeking to develop theoretical arguments to explain the upward or downward trend. In particular, how middle management wage premium changes in different contexts is a relatively neglected area of research. This study argues that wage distribution changes in differen...

Sono trascorsi ormai cinque anni dalla fine della crisi economica e il mercato del lavoro sembra essere profondamente cambiato. Finita la fase recessiva, la ripresa in atto è sì employment-intensive, ma a forte intensità di un tipo di lavoro che risulta difficile ricondurre al lavoro standard, intendendo con tale accezione il lavoro a tempo pieno e...

This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap due to perceived job insecurity over the entire wage distribution of dependent workforce in Italy. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on Quality of Work, our results exhibit a mirror J-shaped pattern in the pay...

Le labour platform sono oramai da tempo anche un mercato ‘virtuale’ in cui si svolgono ‘reali’ interazioni economiche che si sviluppano accanto, o separatamente, a quelle off line. Ma quali sono in Italia le caratteristiche e le motivazioni degli individui che, per trarne profitto, navigano sulla rete Internet? Inoltre, le interazioni economiche sv...

In this article, we investigate the role of several types of educational mismatch in explaining labour market transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job changes, to assess whether mismatch is a temporary or a permanent phenomenon. In the first case, as suggested by...

Questo lavoro esamina il mercato del lavoro italiano alla luce delle principali modifiche attuate negli anni 2000. All’esame dei principali interventi normativi in materia di flessibilità contrattuale attuati dal nostro Paese, inquadrati all’interno delle indicazioni di policy europee, si affianca l’evidenza empirica sugli aggregati occupazionali....

La nuova misura nazionale di contrasto alla povertà, il Reddito di cittadinanza (Rdc), consiste in un beneficio economico condizionato alla sottoscrizione di un progetto di attivazione socio-lavorativa. Il dibattito di policy e le analisi empiriche si sono finora concentrati, oltre che sulla stima della platea di potenziali beneficiari, sul trasfer...

Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants' ov...

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