Chiara Mussida
Biographic Data
| ID | 255387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Mussida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Mussida |
| SIGNATURE | MUSSIDA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9338-9005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Motherhood employment penalty in Europe: Trends, inequalities, and the role of family policies
We present novel evidence on the motherhood penalty in female employment, investigating its evolution over time and the role of family policy in mitigating this negative effect. Using a dynamic framework, we analyze seven European countries from 2003 to 2020, taking into account the potential endogeneity of fertility decisions. We find that childbirth affects female employment with different intensities across countries. Such an effect strengthen…
The Evolution of the Working Poor Phenomenon in Italy
This study explores the phenomenon of in-work poverty in Italy using four waves of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (2007, 2013, 2019, and 2022). We adopt a pooled probit framework to identify individual, household, and labour market factors associated with the probability of being a member of the working poor category. We then use an Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to assess whether changes over time were driven …
Convergence in the Neet rates across the European Union: Do gender differences persist
This study traces gender convergence in the share of young people (15-29) who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) across the EU-27 from 2004 to 2022. Using EU Labour Force Survey micro-data and Eurostat aggregates, we estimate β-, σ-, and δ-convergence. The results point to a clear narrowing of the average gender gap (upward β-convergence). While overall cross-country dispersion has not fallen (no σ-convergence), a catch-up proce…
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: The role of gender
We explore whether gender has a statistically significant impact on material and social deprivation of single adults after accounting for other characteristics. We use data from the 2022 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey for six European countries. By assuming deprivation as an individual latent trait and by treating different deprivation levels as ranked categories, we estimate a proportional odds model separately …
Inequalities in Talents’ Earnings: A Tale of Two European Countries
This paper explores the wage inequalities for the population group of highly talented youth in Italy and Germany, that is the main destination country of Italian talents. We use cross sectional data from the European Union Statistics and Living Conditions Survey for the years 2012 and 2022. We estimate unconditional quantile regression to investigate the wage of Italian and German talents and, within talents, between genders (Italian male versus …
Relative-importance Analysis of Material and Social Deprivation Across European Countries
We investigate the relative importance of the socioeconomic characteristics of households associated with the risk of material and social deprivation. The methodology is based on sequential R $$^2$$ decomposition and cluster analysis approaches, applied to 27 European countries in 2023. Household data come from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey. Our analysis of relative importance reveals that household disposab…
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: A dynamic analysis for European countries
This paper explores how householders’ and partners' low-pay conditions affect the risk of poverty of European households. We use 2016–2019 longitudinal European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data, model poverty and labour market outcomes, and account for possible endogeneity of low-pay work in the poverty equation. Low-pay work is defined on gross hourly wage basis. We find that low-pay work increases the risk of poverty compar…
State Dependence in Material and Social Deprivation in European Single-Parent Households
This paper explores the dynamics of social exclusion as measured by material and social deprivation in the particularly exposed category of single-parent households. We aim to assess whether there is true state dependence in deprivation and the role of other household factors, as well as that of the macro-economic and social welfare scenario. We use 2015–2018 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions longitudinal data to explore a…
Being poor and being Neet in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin
Comparing Material and Social Deprivation Indicators: Identification of Deprived Populations
The new indicator for material and social deprivation validated in 2014 by the European Commission enlarged the scope of measuring social exclusion, which entails both material hardship of individuals and households, and a relevant social dimension. Using EU-SILC data, this paper compares the standard measure of material deprivation and the new indicator in terms of the sub-population they identify as suffering deprivation across Europe. In 2019,…
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: What has changed after the great recession
This paper provides novel evidence on the importance of the phenomenon of poverty and its heterogeneity across European countries. We analyze the determinants of poverty in Europe and their evolution over time by disentangling the role of genuine state dependence and heterogeneity. We apply alternative dynamic probit models accounting for endogenous initial conditions and correlated random effects to the pre-Great Recession period of 2005-2008 an…
Even more discouraged? The Neet generation at the age of Covid-19
questo articolo studia se e in quale misura il rischio di diventare neet (not in employment, education or training) in italia sia peggiorato o meno durante la prima fase della pandemia da covid-19. l'analisi si basa su un dataset originale ottenuto dall’unione di due indagini campionarie: la rilevazione continua sulle forze lavoro (rcfl) svolta dall’istat e l'indice di qualità istituzionale elaborato da nifo e vecchione (2014). i principali risul…
Women’s Family Care Responsibilities, Employment and Health: A Tale of Two Countries
Persistently low employment of women in some countries can still be ascribed to a traditional perception of women’s role in society. According to observed data and prevailing social and cultural norms, women have been bearing the primary burdens of housework, childcare, and other family responsibilities. The unequal share of care responsibilities between women and men further worsens the disadvantages of women in balancing public and private life…
Social exclusion and financial distress: Evidence from Italy and Spain
This paper analyzes the phenomenon of severe material deprivation (SMD) in relation to socio-economic characteristics of Italian and Spanish households. Italy and Spain have registered very different shares of severe material deprivation (households that cannot afford a minimum acceptable way of life, which is a social exclusion problem) since the 2008–2009 economic crisis, despite having similar experiences of poverty as measured in monetary ter…
Being a Neet before and after the Great Recession: Persistence by gender in Southern Europe
This article adds to the scant literature on the time persistence of being a young Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by including four main novelties: we distinguish short- and long-term persistence; we use estimations before (2004–2007) and after the Great Recession (2013–2016); we analyse four Southern European countries that are relatively similar and were significantly affected by the Great Recession (Greece, Italy, Portugal and…
Assessing poverty persistence in households with children
The analysis of poverty persistence received considerable attention in recent years. In this paper we explore the role of the adopted poverty measure in the analysis of its persistence. Specifically, we consider three measures: the risk of poverty, the severe material deprivation and subjective poverty, motivated by the understanding of poverty as a complex phenomenon and for which no single measure can effectively capture its several dimensions.…
Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model
Features of personal income inequality before and during the crisis: An analysis of Italian regions
This paper gives extensive evidence about disposable income inequality inside the regions of Italy and its associated population features. It explores whether the Great Recession changed income inequality within or between regions. Inequality appears largely to be a within-region problem, particularly in the South, and the crisis exacerbated this phenomenon. Middle-class women, migrants and large households in the middle/bottom classes, and botto…
Immigrant groups’ income inequality within and across Italian regions
The trend over time of labour market opportunities for young people in Italy
The gender wage gap by education in Italy
Comparing Material and Social Deprivation Indicators: Identification of Deprived Populations
The new indicator for material and social deprivation validated in 2014 by the European Commission enlarged the scope of measuring social exclusion, which entails both material hardship of individuals and households, and a relevant social dimension. Using EU-SILC data, this paper compares the standard measure of material deprivation and the new indicator in terms of the sub-population they identify as suffering deprivation across Europe. In 2019,…
Features of personal income inequality before and during the crisis: An analysis of Italian regions
This paper gives extensive evidence about disposable income inequality inside the regions of Italy and its associated population features. It explores whether the Great Recession changed income inequality within or between regions. Inequality appears largely to be a within-region problem, particularly in the South, and the crisis exacerbated this phenomenon. Middle-class women, migrants and large households in the middle/bottom classes, and botto…
The gender wage gap by education in Italy
Being a Neet before and after the Great Recession: Persistence by gender in Southern Europe
This article adds to the scant literature on the time persistence of being a young Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by including four main novelties: we distinguish short- and long-term persistence; we use estimations before (2004–2007) and after the Great Recession (2013–2016); we analyse four Southern European countries that are relatively similar and were significantly affected by the Great Recession (Greece, Italy, Portugal and…
Being poor and being Neet in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: What has changed after the great recession
This paper provides novel evidence on the importance of the phenomenon of poverty and its heterogeneity across European countries. We analyze the determinants of poverty in Europe and their evolution over time by disentangling the role of genuine state dependence and heterogeneity. We apply alternative dynamic probit models accounting for endogenous initial conditions and correlated random effects to the pre-Great Recession period of 2005-2008 an…
Social exclusion and financial distress: Evidence from Italy and Spain
This paper analyzes the phenomenon of severe material deprivation (SMD) in relation to socio-economic characteristics of Italian and Spanish households. Italy and Spain have registered very different shares of severe material deprivation (households that cannot afford a minimum acceptable way of life, which is a social exclusion problem) since the 2008–2009 economic crisis, despite having similar experiences of poverty as measured in monetary ter…
Assessing poverty persistence in households with children
The analysis of poverty persistence received considerable attention in recent years. In this paper we explore the role of the adopted poverty measure in the analysis of its persistence. Specifically, we consider three measures: the risk of poverty, the severe material deprivation and subjective poverty, motivated by the understanding of poverty as a complex phenomenon and for which no single measure can effectively capture its several dimensions.…
Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model
Immigrant groups’ income inequality within and across Italian regions
The trend over time of labour market opportunities for young people in Italy
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: A dynamic analysis for European countries
This paper explores how householders’ and partners' low-pay conditions affect the risk of poverty of European households. We use 2016–2019 longitudinal European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data, model poverty and labour market outcomes, and account for possible endogeneity of low-pay work in the poverty equation. Low-pay work is defined on gross hourly wage basis. We find that low-pay work increases the risk of poverty compar…
The gender wage gap by education in Italy
The trend over time of labour market opportunities for young people in Italy
Immigrant groups’ income inequality within and across Italian regions
Features of personal income inequality before and during the crisis: An analysis of Italian regions
This paper gives extensive evidence about disposable income inequality inside the regions of Italy and its associated population features. It explores whether the Great Recession changed income inequality within or between regions. Inequality appears largely to be a within-region problem, particularly in the South, and the crisis exacerbated this phenomenon. Middle-class women, migrants and large households in the middle/bottom classes, and botto…
Assessing poverty persistence in households with children
The analysis of poverty persistence received considerable attention in recent years. In this paper we explore the role of the adopted poverty measure in the analysis of its persistence. Specifically, we consider three measures: the risk of poverty, the severe material deprivation and subjective poverty, motivated by the understanding of poverty as a complex phenomenon and for which no single measure can effectively capture its several dimensions.…
Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model
Even more discouraged? The Neet generation at the age of Covid-19
questo articolo studia se e in quale misura il rischio di diventare neet (not in employment, education or training) in italia sia peggiorato o meno durante la prima fase della pandemia da covid-19. l'analisi si basa su un dataset originale ottenuto dall’unione di due indagini campionarie: la rilevazione continua sulle forze lavoro (rcfl) svolta dall’istat e l'indice di qualità istituzionale elaborato da nifo e vecchione (2014). i principali risul…
Women’s Family Care Responsibilities, Employment and Health: A Tale of Two Countries
Persistently low employment of women in some countries can still be ascribed to a traditional perception of women’s role in society. According to observed data and prevailing social and cultural norms, women have been bearing the primary burdens of housework, childcare, and other family responsibilities. The unequal share of care responsibilities between women and men further worsens the disadvantages of women in balancing public and private life…
Social exclusion and financial distress: Evidence from Italy and Spain
This paper analyzes the phenomenon of severe material deprivation (SMD) in relation to socio-economic characteristics of Italian and Spanish households. Italy and Spain have registered very different shares of severe material deprivation (households that cannot afford a minimum acceptable way of life, which is a social exclusion problem) since the 2008–2009 economic crisis, despite having similar experiences of poverty as measured in monetary ter…
Being a Neet before and after the Great Recession: Persistence by gender in Southern Europe
This article adds to the scant literature on the time persistence of being a young Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by including four main novelties: we distinguish short- and long-term persistence; we use estimations before (2004–2007) and after the Great Recession (2013–2016); we analyse four Southern European countries that are relatively similar and were significantly affected by the Great Recession (Greece, Italy, Portugal and…
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: What has changed after the great recession
This paper provides novel evidence on the importance of the phenomenon of poverty and its heterogeneity across European countries. We analyze the determinants of poverty in Europe and their evolution over time by disentangling the role of genuine state dependence and heterogeneity. We apply alternative dynamic probit models accounting for endogenous initial conditions and correlated random effects to the pre-Great Recession period of 2005-2008 an…
Being poor and being Neet in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin
Comparing Material and Social Deprivation Indicators: Identification of Deprived Populations
The new indicator for material and social deprivation validated in 2014 by the European Commission enlarged the scope of measuring social exclusion, which entails both material hardship of individuals and households, and a relevant social dimension. Using EU-SILC data, this paper compares the standard measure of material deprivation and the new indicator in terms of the sub-population they identify as suffering deprivation across Europe. In 2019,…
State Dependence in Material and Social Deprivation in European Single-Parent Households
This paper explores the dynamics of social exclusion as measured by material and social deprivation in the particularly exposed category of single-parent households. We aim to assess whether there is true state dependence in deprivation and the role of other household factors, as well as that of the macro-economic and social welfare scenario. We use 2015–2018 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions longitudinal data to explore a…
Convergence in the Neet rates across the European Union: Do gender differences persist
This study traces gender convergence in the share of young people (15-29) who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) across the EU-27 from 2004 to 2022. Using EU Labour Force Survey micro-data and Eurostat aggregates, we estimate β-, σ-, and δ-convergence. The results point to a clear narrowing of the average gender gap (upward β-convergence). While overall cross-country dispersion has not fallen (no σ-convergence), a catch-up proce…
Material and social deprivation among one-person households: The role of gender
We explore whether gender has a statistically significant impact on material and social deprivation of single adults after accounting for other characteristics. We use data from the 2022 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey for six European countries. By assuming deprivation as an individual latent trait and by treating different deprivation levels as ranked categories, we estimate a proportional odds model separately …
Inequalities in Talents’ Earnings: A Tale of Two European Countries
This paper explores the wage inequalities for the population group of highly talented youth in Italy and Germany, that is the main destination country of Italian talents. We use cross sectional data from the European Union Statistics and Living Conditions Survey for the years 2012 and 2022. We estimate unconditional quantile regression to investigate the wage of Italian and German talents and, within talents, between genders (Italian male versus …
Relative-importance Analysis of Material and Social Deprivation Across European Countries
We investigate the relative importance of the socioeconomic characteristics of households associated with the risk of material and social deprivation. The methodology is based on sequential R $$^2$$ decomposition and cluster analysis approaches, applied to 27 European countries in 2023. Household data come from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey. Our analysis of relative importance reveals that household disposab…
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: A dynamic analysis for European countries
This paper explores how householders’ and partners' low-pay conditions affect the risk of poverty of European households. We use 2016–2019 longitudinal European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data, model poverty and labour market outcomes, and account for possible endogeneity of low-pay work in the poverty equation. Low-pay work is defined on gross hourly wage basis. We find that low-pay work increases the risk of poverty compar…
Motherhood employment penalty in Europe: Trends, inequalities, and the role of family policies
We present novel evidence on the motherhood penalty in female employment, investigating its evolution over time and the role of family policy in mitigating this negative effect. Using a dynamic framework, we analyze seven European countries from 2003 to 2020, taking into account the potential endogeneity of fertility decisions. We find that childbirth affects female employment with different intensities across countries. Such an effect strengthen…
The Evolution of the Working Poor Phenomenon in Italy
This study explores the phenomenon of in-work poverty in Italy using four waves of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (2007, 2013, 2019, and 2022). We adopt a pooled probit framework to identify individual, household, and labour market factors associated with the probability of being a member of the working poor category. We then use an Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to assess whether changes over time were driven …
Economics (17 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works)