Giorgio Brunello
Biographic Data
| ID | 986759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giorgio Brunello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giorgio |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunello |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNELLO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4830-4199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pension reforms, longer working horizons, and absence from work
The long run earnings effects of winning a mayoral election
Math scores in high stakes grades
Some Unpleasant Consequences of Testing at Length
We show that, when performance on a math test depends on students’ endurance, longer tests do not necessarily provide a more accurate measure of students’ competencies or a higher correlation between the ranking of classes (or schools) based on test performance and the ranking based on the underlying competencies. We revisit the finding that female teenagers are better able to sustain performance during a math test by considering younger pupils, …
Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools
By comparing siblings attending the same school at different points in time, we investigate whether the effect of peer quality on long‐term labor market outcomes varies with parental background. We find that exposure to better peers—who have higher mean parental education—increases lifetime earnings of disadvantaged students, coming from families with low parental education, but penalizes privileged students from better educated families. These r…
Does low-skilled immigration increase profits? Evidence from Italian local labour markets
Books are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Earnings in Europe
We estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals with access to many or few books at home at age ten. We instrument years of education using compulsory school reforms and find that, whereas individuals in rural areas were most affected by the reforms, those with many books enjoyed substantially higher returns to their additiona…
Pappa Ante Portas: The effect of the husband's retirement on the wife's mental health in Japan
The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
We investigate the causal effect of education on health and the part of it that is attributable to health behaviors by distinguishing between short‐run and long‐run mediating effects: whereas, in the former, only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter, we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use two identification strategies: instrumental variables based on compulsory schooling reforms and a combined aggrega…
Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
We investigate the impact of local social pressure on firms’ firing decisions. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that secondary establishments located further away from headquarters have higher dismissal rates than those located closer. The effect of distance on dismissals is stronger, the greater the visibility of the firm in the local community of its headquarters and the larger the degree of selfishness of that community. We show th…
Later-borns Don’t Give Up: The Temporary Effects of Birth Order on European Earnings
The existing empirical evidence on the effects of birth order on wages does not distinguish between temporary and permanent effects. Using data from 11 European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 % premium in their entry wage compared with later-borns. This advantage, however, is short-lived and disappears 10 years after labor market entry. Although firstborns start with a better job, p…
Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
Regional differences in overweight rates: The case of Italian regions
Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey
According to the standard principal‐agent model, the optimal composition of pay should balance the provision of incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this balance? We show that the relative share of Performance‐related pay (PRP), on total pay is reduced by higher average and marginal income taxes. Empirical evidence based on the British Household Panel Survey is consistent with the theoretical predictions of t…
The effects of cohort size on European earnings
Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational attainment, especially among individuals belonging to the lowest quantiles of the distribution of ability. There is also evidence that additional education reduce…
Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools
We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the\nstandard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private\nschools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An\nalternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than\nprivate schools, is also possible, in spite of the fact that tuition levied by private…
Does school tracking affect equality of opportunity? New international evidence
This paper investigates whether the interaction between family background and secondary school tracking affects human capital accumulation. A widely shared view is that more tracking reinforces the role of parental privilege, and thereby reduces equality of opportunities. This may occur for several reasons, including peer effects (more talented students are gathered together), teacher sorting (better teachers prefer teaching better students), dif…
Does body weight affect wages
Are Education and Training Always Complements? Evidence from Thailand
This paper investigates the relationship between education and employer-provided training, both on-the-job and off-the-job, using a unique dataset drawn from a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. The authors find a negative and statistically significant relationship between educational attainment and on-the-job training (OJT) and a positive and statistically significant relationship between education and off-the-job training…
Stratified or Comprehensive? The Economic Efficiency of School Design
We study the efficiency of secondary school design by focusing on the degree of differentiation between vocational and general education. Using a simple model of endogenous job composition, we analyze the interaction between relative demand and relative supply of skills and characterize efficient school design when the government runs schools and cares about total net output. We show that neither a comprehensive nor a stratified system unambiguou…
Internal Labour Markets in Japan
Internal Labour Markets in Japan
Japanese labour market practices have attracted considerable attention in the West for two reasons. Firstly, innovative human resource management (HRM) is responsible for the development of competitive industrial sectors. Secondly, inner flexibility of the labour market has produced low unemployment and wage flexibility. This study, originally published in 2000, provides a thorough investigation of the distinctive features of Japanese internal la…
Equilibrium Unemployment with Internal Labour Markets
The flow approach to the labour market is based on a clear distinction between trade and production. This paper argues that this separation is not realistic because many firms in developed economies usually fill an important share of their vacancies by upgrading incumbent employees. The implications of the existence of internal labour markets are explored with the help of a simple model that extends the well known Pissarides setup. The main resul…
Profit Sharing in Internal Labour Markets
Journal Article Profit Sharing in Internal Labour Markets Get access Giorgio Brunello Giorgio Brunello University of Venice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Pages 570–577, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234293 Published: 01 May 1992
Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational attainment, especially among individuals belonging to the lowest quantiles of the distribution of ability. There is also evidence that additional education reduce…
The effects of cohort size on European earnings
Books are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Earnings in Europe
We estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals with access to many or few books at home at age ten. We instrument years of education using compulsory school reforms and find that, whereas individuals in rural areas were most affected by the reforms, those with many books enjoyed substantially higher returns to their additiona…
Pappa Ante Portas: The effect of the husband's retirement on the wife's mental health in Japan
Later-borns Don’t Give Up: The Temporary Effects of Birth Order on European Earnings
The existing empirical evidence on the effects of birth order on wages does not distinguish between temporary and permanent effects. Using data from 11 European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 % premium in their entry wage compared with later-borns. This advantage, however, is short-lived and disappears 10 years after labor market entry. Although firstborns start with a better job, p…
Stratified or Comprehensive? The Economic Efficiency of School Design
We study the efficiency of secondary school design by focusing on the degree of differentiation between vocational and general education. Using a simple model of endogenous job composition, we analyze the interaction between relative demand and relative supply of skills and characterize efficient school design when the government runs schools and cares about total net output. We show that neither a comprehensive nor a stratified system unambiguou…
The Employment Effects of Shorter Working Hours: An Application to Japanese Data
This paper applies a simple model of hours, employment, and earnings to Japanese manufacturing data and shows that a reduction in the number of standard hours is likely to increase overtime and reduce employment. These findings are in line with recent theoretical developments and in contrast to the predictions of traditional analysis of hours and employment adjustment. This difference is shown to be due to the treatment of the wage rate. Copyrigh…
Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools
We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the\nstandard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private\nschools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An\nalternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than\nprivate schools, is also possible, in spite of the fact that tuition levied by private…
Equilibrium Unemployment with Internal Labour Markets
The flow approach to the labour market is based on a clear distinction between trade and production. This paper argues that this separation is not realistic because many firms in developed economies usually fill an important share of their vacancies by upgrading incumbent employees. The implications of the existence of internal labour markets are explored with the help of a simple model that extends the well known Pissarides setup. The main resul…
The Employment Effects of Shorter Working Hours: An Application to Japanese Data
This paper applies a simple model of hours, employment, and earnings to Japanese manufacturing data and shows that a reduction in the number of standard hours is likely to increase overtime and reduce employment. These findings are in line with recent theoretical developments and in contrast to the predictions of traditional analysis of hours and employment adjustment. This difference is shown to be due to the treatment of the wage rate. Copyrigh…
Profit Sharing in Internal Labour Markets
Journal Article Profit Sharing in Internal Labour Markets Get access Giorgio Brunello Giorgio Brunello University of Venice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Pages 570–577, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234293 Published: 01 May 1992
The Effect of Unions on Firm Performance in Japanese Manufacturing
Using data on a sample of 979 union and nonunion Japanese manufacturing firms selected from the 1987 issue of the Yearbook of Japanese Unlisted Companies, the author examines the relationship between union status and firm performance in Japan. The findings suggest that Japanese unions in the sample substantially reduced both productivity and profitability, as well as regular wages net of bonuses and fringes. These three union effects were conside…
Equilibrium Unemployment with Internal Labour Markets
The flow approach to the labour market is based on a clear distinction between trade and production. This paper argues that this separation is not realistic because many firms in developed economies usually fill an important share of their vacancies by upgrading incumbent employees. The implications of the existence of internal labour markets are explored with the help of a simple model that extends the well known Pissarides setup. The main resul…
Internal Labour Markets in Japan
Japanese labour market practices have attracted considerable attention in the West for two reasons. Firstly, innovative human resource management (HRM) is responsible for the development of competitive industrial sectors. Secondly, inner flexibility of the labour market has produced low unemployment and wage flexibility. This study, originally published in 2000, provides a thorough investigation of the distinctive features of Japanese internal la…
Internal Labour Markets in Japan
Stratified or Comprehensive? The Economic Efficiency of School Design
We study the efficiency of secondary school design by focusing on the degree of differentiation between vocational and general education. Using a simple model of endogenous job composition, we analyze the interaction between relative demand and relative supply of skills and characterize efficient school design when the government runs schools and cares about total net output. We show that neither a comprehensive nor a stratified system unambiguou…
Does body weight affect wages
Are Education and Training Always Complements? Evidence from Thailand
This paper investigates the relationship between education and employer-provided training, both on-the-job and off-the-job, using a unique dataset drawn from a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. The authors find a negative and statistically significant relationship between educational attainment and on-the-job training (OJT) and a positive and statistically significant relationship between education and off-the-job training…
Does school tracking affect equality of opportunity? New international evidence
This paper investigates whether the interaction between family background and secondary school tracking affects human capital accumulation. A widely shared view is that more tracking reinforces the role of parental privilege, and thereby reduces equality of opportunities. This may occur for several reasons, including peer effects (more talented students are gathered together), teacher sorting (better teachers prefer teaching better students), dif…
Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools
We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the\nstandard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private\nschools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An\nalternative configuration, with public schools offering a higher educational standard than\nprivate schools, is also possible, in spite of the fact that tuition levied by private…
The effects of cohort size on European earnings
Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational attainment, especially among individuals belonging to the lowest quantiles of the distribution of ability. There is also evidence that additional education reduce…
Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey
According to the standard principal‐agent model, the optimal composition of pay should balance the provision of incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this balance? We show that the relative share of Performance‐related pay (PRP), on total pay is reduced by higher average and marginal income taxes. Empirical evidence based on the British Household Panel Survey is consistent with the theoretical predictions of t…
Regional differences in overweight rates: The case of Italian regions
Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
We investigate the causal effect of education on health and the part of it that is attributable to health behaviors by distinguishing between short‐run and long‐run mediating effects: whereas, in the former, only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter, we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use two identification strategies: instrumental variables based on compulsory schooling reforms and a combined aggrega…
Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
We investigate the impact of local social pressure on firms’ firing decisions. Using linked employer-employee data, we show that secondary establishments located further away from headquarters have higher dismissal rates than those located closer. The effect of distance on dismissals is stronger, the greater the visibility of the firm in the local community of its headquarters and the larger the degree of selfishness of that community. We show th…
Later-borns Don’t Give Up: The Temporary Effects of Birth Order on European Earnings
The existing empirical evidence on the effects of birth order on wages does not distinguish between temporary and permanent effects. Using data from 11 European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 % premium in their entry wage compared with later-borns. This advantage, however, is short-lived and disappears 10 years after labor market entry. Although firstborns start with a better job, p…
Books are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Earnings in Europe
We estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals with access to many or few books at home at age ten. We instrument years of education using compulsory school reforms and find that, whereas individuals in rural areas were most affected by the reforms, those with many books enjoyed substantially higher returns to their additiona…
Pappa Ante Portas: The effect of the husband's retirement on the wife's mental health in Japan
Who benefits from privileged peers? Evidence from siblings in schools
By comparing siblings attending the same school at different points in time, we investigate whether the effect of peer quality on long‐term labor market outcomes varies with parental background. We find that exposure to better peers—who have higher mean parental education—increases lifetime earnings of disadvantaged students, coming from families with low parental education, but penalizes privileged students from better educated families. These r…
Does low-skilled immigration increase profits? Evidence from Italian local labour markets
Some Unpleasant Consequences of Testing at Length
We show that, when performance on a math test depends on students’ endurance, longer tests do not necessarily provide a more accurate measure of students’ competencies or a higher correlation between the ranking of classes (or schools) based on test performance and the ranking based on the underlying competencies. We revisit the finding that female teenagers are better able to sustain performance during a math test by considering younger pupils, …
Math scores in high stakes grades
Economics (24 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Labour economics (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Earnings (7 works) · Demography (6 works)