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Bridging the Gender Gap in NEET Risk: Institutional Influences on NEET Status in Different Age Groups
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Chungseo Kang; Minjong Youn – SAGE Open, 2024
Utilizing the Survey of Adult Skills from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the OECD database, this study investigates the role of gender inequality and public social spending in the gender gap in Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) risk across various age cohorts. The research identifies a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness, Adults
The Role of the Welfare State for NEETs: Exploring the Association between Public Social Spending and NEET in European Countries
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Minjong Youn; Chungseo Kang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study explores the role of the welfare state in reducing young people not being in education, employment, or training (NEET)s across 15 European countries. Using data from the Survey of Adult Skills in the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in combination with the Social Expenditure Database, we conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Young Adults, Out of School Youth
OECD Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report: Italy 2017
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OECD Publishing, 2017
Skills demands are increasing and changing rapidly everywhere, as advanced economies adapt to globalisation, technological change and ageing. Yet Italy is struggling more than other advanced economies to make the transition towards a thriving and dynamic skills-based society. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skills, Supply and Demand, Access to Education
Effort Allocation in Tournaments: The Effect of Gender on Academic Performance in Italian Universities
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Castagnetti, Carolina; Rosti, Luisa – Economics of Education Review, 2009
We consider the academic performance of Italian university graduates and their labor market position 3 years after graduation. Our data confirm the common finding that female students outperform male students in academia but are overcome in the labor market. Assuming that academic competition is fair and that individual talent is equally…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Labor Market, Competition
Self-Employment among Italian Female Graduates
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Rosti, Luisa; Chelli, Francesco – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender impact of tertiary education on the probability of entering and remaining in self-employment. Design/methodology/approach: A data set on labour market flows produced by the Italian National Statistical Office is exploited by interviewing about 62,000 graduate and non-graduate…
Descriptors: Females, Labor Market, Salary Wage Differentials, Interviews
Education and Work in Great Britain, Germany and Italy.
Jobert, Annette, Ed.; Marry, Catherine, Ed.; Tanguy, Lucie, Ed.; Rainbird, Helen, Ed. – 1997
This volume analyzes the literature in the field of education and work and establishes an institutional and intellectual cartography for three countries. It examines the multiple connections between education and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training, and on the labor market. It…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Development