Daniele Checchi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3624748 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniele Checchi |
| PRENOMES | Daniele |
| SOBRENOME | Checchi |
| ASSINATURA | CHECCHI D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7466-8562 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity
Merit Pay for Schoolteachers in Italy, 2015–2016
In 2015, a new performance-related pay scheme was introduced for schoolteachers in Italy as part of education accountability policies aimed at improving their performance. Beginning in that year, all Italian state school principals were offered the opportunity to distribute wage bonuses to deserving teachers. During the first year of implementation, 82 percent of the schools appointed ad hoc internal committees and distributed the bonuses, on ave…
Incentives and Careers in Academia
We study career concerns in italian academia. We mold our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalized in the multiunit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria for promotion determine academics' effort and output. In Italian universities, incentives operate only through promotion, and all appointment panels are drawn from strictly separated and relatively narr…
Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm
This paper determines the assessment of publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency, ANVUR, for its evaluation of the research of Italian universities. We find extremely high correlations between the two assessment approaches
Selecting or rewarding teachers? International evidence from primary schools
Convergence or polarisation? The impact of research assessment exercises in the Italian case
Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European countries (France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland), the evolution of inequality of opportunity is measured for a period of about two decades for t…
Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection
This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and connections in promoting women in research. Exploiting a newly collected data set on research recruitment processes to entry-level positions in a leading Italian research centre operating mainly in the hard sciences, the study finds that bias against women manifests itself at non-tenured entry level and is attenuated by the presence of a woman on the selectio…
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when harmonizing income and consumption microdata from middle-income countries, we focus on Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa, in a comparative perspecti…
Policies, skills and earnings
We study the impact of dispersions in education (both in student test scores and final educational attainment) on earnings inequality, in a country-cohort design. Neo-classical economic theory would predict a positive association between skill inequality (as measured in student test scores) and earnings inequality, while educational attainment inequality adds little on top of skills inequality. A sociological theory of social closure, however, ar…
Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality
Earnings are the product of wages and hours of work; hence, the dispersion of hours can magnify or dampen a given distribution of wages. This paper examines how earnings inequality is affected by the dispersion of working hours using data for the USA, the UK, Germany, and France over the period 1989–2012. We find that hours dispersion can account for over a third of earnings inequality in some countries and that its contribution has been growing …
An Economic Perspective on Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Market Prospects
During the 1990s, there was considerable continuity in the employment protection legislation (EPL) of OECD countries, with one major exception: the deregulation of fixed-term contracts and other non-standard labour relationships. Particularly in Southern Europe, changes of labour market policy consisted mainly of measures aimed at introducing ‘flexibility at the margin’, that is, making the utilization of non-permanent contracts more loosely regu…
Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries
This text uses a combination of comparative analysis and in-depth examination of the experience of 30 countries over the past 30 years, to see whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education has been widening. It shows how these inequalities are related to social and political outcomes such as poverty, family structures, health, and crime.
Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries
This book addresses key questions about whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education have been widening in a consistent fashion across 30 rich nations. It considers possible drivers of these developments, and it scrutinises scrutinizes whether this widening is exacerbating social problems and undermining the healthy functioning of democratic processes. It sets out to answer these questions by looking in depth at the experience of 30 count…
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. This paper argues that personal income inequality depends on the wage differential, the labour share and the unemployment rate. Labour market institutions affect income inequality through these three channels, and their overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD cou…
Privatisation Discontent and Utility Reform in Latin America
Privatisation faces strong and increasingly popular opposition in Latin America. This paper uses individual data on social attitudes, socioeconomic status and demographic information from three waves of Latinobarometro surveys (1998, 2000 and 2002) in 17 countries to study the role of privatisation of utilities and its distributional impact. We find that disagreement with privatisation is most likely when the respondent is on a low-to-middle inco…
Inequality of opportunity in Italy
Labour market institutions and income inequality
Labour market institutions are a crucial determinant of wage inequality, the wage share in aggregate income, and the unemployment rate. Since these variables affect, in turn, the distribution of income across households, the question arises of whether stronger labour market institutions have an impact on income inequality. Institutions can in principle have conflicting effects. For example, a higher unemployment benefit tends to increase the wage…
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…
The Economics of Education
In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on …
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density
Journal Article Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density: A longitudinal analysis 1950–1996 Get access Daniele Checchi, Daniele Checchi Department of Economics and Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jelle Visser Jelle Visser Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV Amster…
Inequality in Incomes and Access to Education
In the current debate on the relationship between inequality in income distribution and growth, one of the possible links works through access to education. Starting from an optimal demand for education where, among other things, the years of education depend on family income, we derive two testable predictions in the analysis of aggregate data on school enrolments: a negative (linear) dependence of enrolment rates on the Gini concentration index…
Risk and the distribution of human capital
The Economics of Education
In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on …
Inequality of opportunity in Italy
Policies, skills and earnings
We study the impact of dispersions in education (both in student test scores and final educational attainment) on earnings inequality, in a country-cohort design. Neo-classical economic theory would predict a positive association between skill inequality (as measured in student test scores) and earnings inequality, while educational attainment inequality adds little on top of skills inequality. A sociological theory of social closure, however, ar…
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. This paper argues that personal income inequality depends on the wage differential, the labour share and the unemployment rate. Labour market institutions affect income inequality through these three channels, and their overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD cou…
Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density
Journal Article Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density: A longitudinal analysis 1950–1996 Get access Daniele Checchi, Daniele Checchi Department of Economics and Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jelle Visser Jelle Visser Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV Amster…
Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection
This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and connections in promoting women in research. Exploiting a newly collected data set on research recruitment processes to entry-level positions in a leading Italian research centre operating mainly in the hard sciences, the study finds that bias against women manifests itself at non-tenured entry level and is attenuated by the presence of a woman on the selectio…
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity
An Economic Perspective on Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Market Prospects
During the 1990s, there was considerable continuity in the employment protection legislation (EPL) of OECD countries, with one major exception: the deregulation of fixed-term contracts and other non-standard labour relationships. Particularly in Southern Europe, changes of labour market policy consisted mainly of measures aimed at introducing ‘flexibility at the margin’, that is, making the utilization of non-permanent contracts more loosely regu…
Education and Intergenerational Mobility in Occupations
The problem of measuring the intergenerational transmission of inequality and its implications for social welfare is studied. A possible decomposition of relevant factors-namely, educational attainments and other factors-is proposed and applied to three individual data sets regarding Germany, Italy, and the United States. The main result is that educational attainment is responsible for almost half of observed immobility The possibility that incr…
Education and Intergenerational Mobility in Occupations
The problem of measuring the intergenerational transmission of inequality and its implications for social welfare is studied. A possible decomposition of relevant factors-namely, educational attainments and other factors-is proposed and applied to three individual data sets regarding Germany, Italy, and the United States. The main result is that educational attainment is responsible for almost half of observed immobility The possibility that incr…
Inequality in Incomes and Access to Education
In the current debate on the relationship between inequality in income distribution and growth, one of the possible links works through access to education. Starting from an optimal demand for education where, among other things, the years of education depend on family income, we derive two testable predictions in the analysis of aggregate data on school enrolments: a negative (linear) dependence of enrolment rates on the Gini concentration index…
Risk and the distribution of human capital
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density
Journal Article Pattern Persistence in European Trade Union Density: A longitudinal analysis 1950–1996 Get access Daniele Checchi, Daniele Checchi Department of Economics and Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jelle Visser Jelle Visser Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV Amster…
The Economics of Education
In an important contribution to educational policy, Daniele Checchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply of education. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point, investment in education has not resulted in reductions in social inequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker, Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on human capital and social capital formation. He draws on individual data on …
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…
Labour market institutions and income inequality
Labour market institutions are a crucial determinant of wage inequality, the wage share in aggregate income, and the unemployment rate. Since these variables affect, in turn, the distribution of income across households, the question arises of whether stronger labour market institutions have an impact on income inequality. Institutions can in principle have conflicting effects. For example, a higher unemployment benefit tends to increase the wage…
Privatisation Discontent and Utility Reform in Latin America
Privatisation faces strong and increasingly popular opposition in Latin America. This paper uses individual data on social attitudes, socioeconomic status and demographic information from three waves of Latinobarometro surveys (1998, 2000 and 2002) in 17 countries to study the role of privatisation of utilities and its distributional impact. We find that disagreement with privatisation is most likely when the respondent is on a low-to-middle inco…
Inequality of opportunity in Italy
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. This paper argues that personal income inequality depends on the wage differential, the labour share and the unemployment rate. Labour market institutions affect income inequality through these three channels, and their overall effect is theoretically ambiguous. We use a panel of OECD cou…
Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries
This text uses a combination of comparative analysis and in-depth examination of the experience of 30 countries over the past 30 years, to see whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education has been widening. It shows how these inequalities are related to social and political outcomes such as poverty, family structures, health, and crime.
Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries
This book addresses key questions about whether inequality in incomes, wealth, and education have been widening in a consistent fashion across 30 rich nations. It considers possible drivers of these developments, and it scrutinises scrutinizes whether this widening is exacerbating social problems and undermining the healthy functioning of democratic processes. It sets out to answer these questions by looking in depth at the experience of 30 count…
Are changes in the dispersion of hours worked a cause of increased earnings inequality
Earnings are the product of wages and hours of work; hence, the dispersion of hours can magnify or dampen a given distribution of wages. This paper examines how earnings inequality is affected by the dispersion of working hours using data for the USA, the UK, Germany, and France over the period 1989–2012. We find that hours dispersion can account for over a third of earnings inequality in some countries and that its contribution has been growing …
An Economic Perspective on Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Market Prospects
During the 1990s, there was considerable continuity in the employment protection legislation (EPL) of OECD countries, with one major exception: the deregulation of fixed-term contracts and other non-standard labour relationships. Particularly in Southern Europe, changes of labour market policy consisted mainly of measures aimed at introducing ‘flexibility at the margin’, that is, making the utilization of non-permanent contracts more loosely regu…
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when harmonizing income and consumption microdata from middle-income countries, we focus on Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa, in a comparative perspecti…
Policies, skills and earnings
We study the impact of dispersions in education (both in student test scores and final educational attainment) on earnings inequality, in a country-cohort design. Neo-classical economic theory would predict a positive association between skill inequality (as measured in student test scores) and earnings inequality, while educational attainment inequality adds little on top of skills inequality. A sociological theory of social closure, however, ar…
Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European countries (France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland), the evolution of inequality of opportunity is measured for a period of about two decades for t…
Gender Quotas or Girls' Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection
This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and connections in promoting women in research. Exploiting a newly collected data set on research recruitment processes to entry-level positions in a leading Italian research centre operating mainly in the hard sciences, the study finds that bias against women manifests itself at non-tenured entry level and is attenuated by the presence of a woman on the selectio…
Selecting or rewarding teachers? International evidence from primary schools
Convergence or polarisation? The impact of research assessment exercises in the Italian case
Merit Pay for Schoolteachers in Italy, 2015–2016
In 2015, a new performance-related pay scheme was introduced for schoolteachers in Italy as part of education accountability policies aimed at improving their performance. Beginning in that year, all Italian state school principals were offered the opportunity to distribute wage bonuses to deserving teachers. During the first year of implementation, 82 percent of the schools appointed ad hoc internal committees and distributed the bonuses, on ave…
Incentives and Careers in Academia
We study career concerns in italian academia. We mold our empirical analysis on the standard model of contests, formalized in the multiunit all-pay auction. The number of posts, the number of applicants, and the relative importance of the criteria for promotion determine academics' effort and output. In Italian universities, incentives operate only through promotion, and all appointment panels are drawn from strictly separated and relatively narr…
Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm
This paper determines the assessment of publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency, ANVUR, for its evaluation of the research of Italian universities. We find extremely high correlations between the two assessment approaches
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity
Economics (24 obras) · Inequality (15 obras) · Demographic economics (13 obras) · Economic growth (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Economic inequality (11 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (11 obras) · Labour economics (11 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (10 obras)