The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is organizing a special GLO session at the 32nd annual Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economists, hosted by the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance “Giovanni Anania” at the University of Calabria in the Arcavacata Campus in Rende (Cosenza), on the 14th-15th September 2017.

The theme for this year’s conference “Gender Gaps in Educational Choices” is the analysis of the factors determining different educational choices and labour market outcomes across gender. The AIEL keynote lecture will be delivered by Victor Lavy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Warwick) on  “Why There Are Fewer Female Engineers: The Role of Teachers”. 

Full program with the GLO session here. The joint AIEL-GLO session is chaired by GLO Country Lead Italy Francesco Pastore.

C4. Family and Work (Joint Session AIEL-GLO): Chair: Francesco Pastore (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli & GLO)

Daniele Biancardi (Università di Milano and Irvapp): A Structural Model of Life-cycle Decisions of (Italian) Households

Margherita Calderone (Università di Torino): Are There Different Spillover Effects from Cash Transfers to Men and Women?

Isabella Giorgetti (Università Politecnica delle Marche): Job Instability and Fertility Choices during the Economic Recession: European Countries

Francesco Pastore (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli), Sanghamitra Kanjilal (University of Calcutta): Are Lower Labour Market Returns to Education in India Responsible for Low Female Work Participation? An Analysis of NSSO Data: 2011-12

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