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Sergio Scicchitano

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Terminal Degree: Facoltà di Economia; "Sapienza" Università di Roma (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(1%) Istituto Nazionale per l'Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche (INAPP)

Roma, Italy
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RePEc:edi:inappit (more details at EDIRC)

(19%) Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Essen, Germany
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(80%) Department of Economics and Social Sciences
John Cabot University

Roma, Italy
http://www.johncabot.edu/economics-social-sciences/
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Working papers

  1. Schettino, Francesco & Scicchitano, Sergio & Suppa, Domenico, 2024. "COVID 19 and Wage Polarization: A task based approach," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1398, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  2. Mauro Caselli & Edwin Fourrier-Nicolai & Andrea Fracasso & Sergio Scicchitano, 2024. "Digital Technologies and Firms’ Employment and Training," CESifo Working Paper Series 11056, CESifo.
  3. Cucchiarini, Veronica & Scicchitano, Sergio & Viale, Riccardo, 2024. "The Entrepreneur's Cognitive and Behavioral Journey: Understanding Heuristics and Bias under Risk and Uncertainty," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1390, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  4. Esposito, Piero & Mendolia, Silvia & Scicchitano, Sergio & Tealdi, Cristina, 2024. "Working from Home and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Gender and Personality Traits," IZA Discussion Papers 16751, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  5. Doon, Roshnie & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2024. "The Returns to Education and the Wage Effect from Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago: A Pseudo-Panel Approach," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1431, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  6. Andlib, Zubaria & Sadiq, Maqsood & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2024. "Intergenerational (im)mobility in Pakistan: Is the social elevator broken?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1367, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  7. Brunello, Giorgio & Esposito, Piero & Rocco, Lorenzo & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2023. "Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?," IZA Discussion Papers 15985, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  8. Liliana Cuccu & Vicente Royuela & Sergio Scicchitano, 2023. "“Navigating the Precarious Path: Understanding the Dualisation of the Italian Labour Market through the Lens of Involuntary Part-Time Employment”," AQR Working Papers 202307, University of Barcelona, Regional Quantitative Analysis Group, revised Oct 2023.
  9. Mauro Caselli & Andrea Fracasso & Arianna Marcolin & Sergio Scicchitano, 2023. "Technological Innovations and Workers’ Job Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Firm Strategies," CESifo Working Paper Series 10673, CESifo.
  10. Esposito, Piero & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2022. "Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates: The role of personality traits," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1048, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  11. Kosteas, Vasilios D. & Renna, Francesco & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2022. "Covid-19 and Working from Home: toward a "new normal"?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1013, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  12. Leone Leonida & Antonio Giangreco & Sergio Scicchitano & Marco Biagetti, 2022. "Britain and BrExit: Is the UK more attractive to supervisors? An analysis of the wage premium to supervision across the EU," Post-Print hal-03706187, HAL.
  13. A. Ricci & S. Scicchitano & M. Conti & G. Cardullo & G. Sulis, 2022. "On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations," Working Paper CRENoS 202201, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
  14. Bonacini, Luca & Gallo, Giovanni & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "Will it be a shecession? The unintended influence of working from home on the gender wage gap related to the COVID-19 pandemic," GLO Discussion Paper Series 771, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  15. Mauro Caselli & Andrea Fracasso & Sergio Scicchitano & Silvio Traverso & Enrico Tundis, 2021. "Stop worrying and love the robot: An activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics," DEM Working Papers 2021/06, Department of Economics and Management.
  16. Carbonero, Francesco & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "Labour and technology at the time of Covid-19. Can artificial intelligence mitigate the need for proximity?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 765, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  17. Bonacini, Luca & Gallo, Giovanni & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "Sometimes you cannot make it on your own. How household background influences chances of success in Italy," GLO Discussion Paper Series 832, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  18. Ricci, Chiara Assunta & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "The role of Great Recession on income polarization by population groups," GLO Discussion Paper Series 766, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  19. Ainaa, Carmen & Brunetti, Irene & Mussida, Chiara & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "Who lost the most? Distributive effects of COVID-19 pandemic," GLO Discussion Paper Series 829, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  20. Caselli, Mauro & Fracasso, Andrea & Marcolin, Arianna & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity," GLO Discussion Paper Series 938, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  21. Aina, Carmen & Brunetti, Irene & Mussida, Chiara & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2021. "Even more discouraged? The NEET generation at the age of COVID-19," GLO Discussion Paper Series 863, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  22. Vannutelli, Silvia & Scicchitano, Sergio & Biagetti, Marco, 2021. "Routine biased technological change and wage inequality: do workers' perceptions matter?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 763, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  23. Teresa Barbieri & Gaetano Basso & Sergio Scicchitano, 2020. "Italian workers at risk during the COVID-19 epidemic," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 569, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
  24. Mauro Caselli & Andrea Fracasso & Sergio Scicchitano, 2020. "From the lockdown to the new normal: An analysis of the limitations to individual mobility in Italy following the Covid-19 crisis," Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography 2020-07, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences, revised Oct 2020.
  25. Biagetti, Marco & Giangreco, Antonio & Leonida, Leone & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2020. "BrExit or BritaIn: Is the UK more Attractive to Supervisors? An Analysis of Wage Premium to Supervision across the EU," GLO Discussion Paper Series 510, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  26. Bonacini, Luca & Gallo, Giovanni & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2020. "All that glitters is not gold. Effects of working from home on income inequality at the time of COVID-19," GLO Discussion Paper Series 541, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  27. Esposito, Piero & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2020. "Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment: evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers," GLO Discussion Paper Series 465, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  28. Marco Biagetti & Antonio Giangreco & L. Leone & M. Marra & S. Scicchitano, 2020. "Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in different contexts: evidence from Germany and the UK," Post-Print hal-02508903, HAL.
  29. Van Wolleghem, Pierre Georges & De Angelis, Marina & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2019. "Education-occupation mismatch of migrants in the Italian labour market: the effect of social networks," GLO Discussion Paper Series 398, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  30. Esposito, Piero & Collignon, Stefan & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2019. "Immigration and unemployment in Europe: does the core-periphery dualism matter?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 310, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  31. Sergio Scicchitano & Marco Biagetti & Antonio Chirumbolo, 2019. "More insecure and less paid? The effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution," Working Papers 0041, ASTRIL - Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro.
  32. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2016. "Are women in supervisory positions more discriminated against? A multinomial approach," Working Papers 2, Department of the Treasury, Ministry of the Economy and of Finance.
  33. Sergio Scicchitano, 2015. "Exploring the gender wage gap in the managerial labour market:a counterfactual decomposition analysis," Working Papers 2, Department of the Treasury, Ministry of the Economy and of Finance.
  34. Marco Biagetti & Leone Leonida & Sergio Scicchitano, 2012. "The Wage Incentive to Management: A Comparison across European Economies," Working Papers 687, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
  35. Luigi Reggi & Sergio Scicchitano, 2011. "European Regions Financing Public e-Services: the Case of EU Structural Funds," Working Papers 1110, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics - Scientific Committee - L. Stefanini & G. Travaglini, revised 2011.
  36. Biagetti, Marco & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2009. "Inequality in workers’ lifelong learning across european countries: Evidence from EU-SILC data-set," MPRA Paper 17356, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  37. Biagetti, Marco & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2009. "Wage inequality and returns to schooling in Europe: a semi-parametric approach using EU-SILC data," MPRA Paper 19060, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  38. Biagetti, Marco & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2009. "Inter-industry Wage Premia in Portugal: Evidence from EU-SILC data," MPRA Paper 19076, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  39. Sergio Scicchitano, 2002. "Complementarity between heterogeneus human capital and R&D: can job-training avoid low development traps?," Working Papers in Public Economics 70, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.

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Articles

  1. Luca Bonacini & Giovanni Gallo & Sergio Scicchitano, 2024. "Does Working from Home Increase the Gender Wage Gap? Insights from an Italian Survey of Occupations," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(2), pages 53-88, April.
  2. Gabriele Cardullo & Maurizio Conti & Andrea Ricci & Sergio Scicchitano & Giovanni Sulis, 2024. "On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labour relations," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 62(3), pages 568-590, September.
  3. Andlib, Zubaria & Scicchitano, Sergio & Padda, Ihtsham Ul Haq, 2024. "The role of natural resources, fintech, political stability, and social globalization in environmental sustainability: Evidence from the United Kingdom," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  4. Piero Esposito & Sergio Scicchitano, 2023. "Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates: the role of personality traits," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(40), pages 4642-4663, August.
  5. Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem & Marina De Angelis & Sergio Scicchitano, 2023. "Do informal Networks Increase Migrants’ Over-Education? Comparing Over-Education for Natives, Migrants and Second Generations in Italy and Assessing the Role of Networks in Generating It," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 9(1), pages 175-197, March.
  6. Carmen Aina & Irene Brunetti & Chiara Mussida & Sergio Scicchitano, 2023. "Distributional effects of COVID-19," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 13(1), pages 221-256, March.
  7. Leone Leonida & Antonio Giangreco & Sergio Scicchitano & Marco Biagetti, 2023. "Britain and BrExit: Is the UK more attractive to supervisors? An analysis of the wage premium to supervision across the EU," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 61(2), pages 291-312, June.
  8. Mauro Caselli & Andrea Fracasso & Arianna Marcolin & Sergio Scicchitano, 2023. "The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 45(4), pages 754-778, October.
  9. Esposito, Piero & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2022. "Educational mismatch and labour market transitions in Italy: Is there an unemployment trap?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 138-155.
  10. Teresa Barbieri & Gaetano Basso & Sergio Scicchitano, 2022. "Italian Workers at Risk During the COVID-19 Epidemic," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 8(1), pages 175-195, March.
  11. Silvia Vannutelli & Sergio Scicchitano & Marco Biagetti, 2022. "Routine-biased technological change and wage inequality: do workers’ perceptions matter?," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 12(3), pages 409-450, September.
  12. Mauro Caselli & Andrea Fracasso & Sergio Scicchitano, 2022. "From the lockdown to the new normal: individual mobility and local labor market characteristics following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 35(4), pages 1517-1550, October.
  13. Michelangelo Filippi & Manuel Marocco & Roberto Quaranta & Sergio Scicchitano, 2021. "Using Administrative Data to Examine the Demand for Discontinuous Work in Italy: From 2009 to Covid-19," Economia & lavoro, Carocci editore, issue 2, pages 105-134.
  14. Luca Bonacini & Giovanni Gallo & Sergio Scicchitano, 2021. "Working from home and income inequality: risks of a ‘new normal’ with COVID-19," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 34(1), pages 303-360, January.
  15. Chiara Assunta Ricci & Sergio Scicchitano, 2021. "Decomposing changes in income polarization by population group: what happened during the crisis?," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 38(1), pages 235-259, April.
  16. Sergio Scicchitano & Marco Biagetti & Antonio Chirumbolo, 2020. "More insecure and less paid? The effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(18), pages 1998-2013, April.
  17. Leone Leonida & Marianna Marra & Sergio Scicchitano & Antonio Giangreco & Marco Biagetti, 2020. "Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in Different Contexts: Evidence from Germany and the UK," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 34(6), pages 1004-1026, December.
  18. Esposito, Piero & Collignon, Stefan & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2020. "The effect of immigration on unemployment in Europe: Does the core-periphery dualism matter?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 249-258.
  19. Sergio Scicchitano, 2015. "Commenti," PRISMA Economia - Societ? - Lavoro, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2015(1), pages 176-181.
  20. Sergio Scicchitano, 2014. "The gender wage gap among Spanish managers," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 35(3), pages 327-344, May.
  21. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2014. "Estimating the Gender Pay Gap in the Managerial and non Managerial Italian Labor Market," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 34(3), pages 1846-1856.
  22. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scichittano, 2014. "Is There a Heteroscedasticity due to Gender in the Adult Learning? A View from Europe," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(3), pages 91-102.
  23. Reggi, Luigi & Scicchitano, Sergio, 2014. "Are EU regional digital strategies evidence-based? An analysis of the allocation of 2007–13 Structural Funds," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 530-538.
  24. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2013. "The determinants of lifelong learning incidence across European countries (evidence from EU-SILC dataset)," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 63(1), pages 77-97, March.
  25. Sergio Scicchitano, 2012. "The male--female pay gap across the managerial workforce in the United Kingdom: a semi-parametric decomposition approach," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(13), pages 1293-1297, September.
  26. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2012. "Returns to Schooling in Europe: Evidence From Quantile Regression on EU-SILC Data," Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology, ScientificPapers.org, vol. 2(5), pages 1-9, October.
  27. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2011. "A note on the gender wage gap among managerial positions using a counterfactual decomposition approach: sticky floor or glass ceiling?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(10), pages 939-943.
  28. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2011. "Exploring the inter-industry wage premia in Portugal along the wage distribution: evidence from EU-SILC data," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(1), pages 93-99.
  29. Marco Biagetti & Sergio Scicchitano, 2011. "Education and wage inequality in Europe," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(3), pages 2620-2628.
  30. Sergio Scicchitano, 2010. "Complementarity between heterogeneous human capital and R&D: can job-training avoid low development traps?," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 37(4), pages 361-380, November.
  31. Sergio Scicchitano, 2007. "On the complementarity between on-the-job training and R&D: a brief overview," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 15(2), pages 1-11.
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Chapters

  1. Luigi Reggi & Sergio Scicchitano, 2012. "Financing Public e-Services in Europe: A Regional Perspective," Springer Books, in: Marco De Marco & Dov Te'eni & Valentina Albano & Stefano Za (ed.), Information Systems: Crossroads for Organization, Management, Accounting and Engineering, edition 127, pages 19-26, Springer.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 42 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (17) 2012-05-08 2019-01-28 2020-02-24 2020-08-17 2021-03-22 2021-03-29 2021-06-28 2021-09-27 2022-01-17 2022-03-21 2023-11-13 2023-11-13 2024-01-01 2024-02-12 2024-03-25 2024-05-20 2024-05-27. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EUR: Microeconomic European Issues (16) 2011-07-21 2012-05-08 2019-09-30 2020-02-24 2020-04-27 2021-02-01 2021-03-29 2021-05-03 2021-05-03 2021-06-21 2021-06-28 2021-09-27 2022-03-21 2023-11-13 2024-01-01 2024-02-12. Author is listed
  3. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (11) 2009-09-26 2009-12-19 2009-12-19 2012-05-08 2019-02-11 2020-05-25 2021-02-01 2021-05-03 2023-02-27 2024-02-19 2024-02-26. Author is listed
  4. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (8) 2019-02-11 2019-09-30 2021-05-03 2023-03-27 2023-04-10 2023-11-13 2024-01-01 2024-02-12. Author is listed
  5. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (7) 2009-09-26 2012-05-08 2016-05-21 2022-02-07 2023-11-13 2024-02-19 2024-02-26. Author is listed
  6. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (5) 2020-04-27 2020-08-17 2021-05-03 2024-02-19 2024-02-26. Author is listed
  7. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (5) 2021-03-29 2021-06-21 2021-09-27 2023-11-13 2024-05-20. Author is listed
  8. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (3) 2021-09-27 2023-11-13 2024-05-20
  9. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (3) 2021-02-01 2021-05-03 2021-05-03
  10. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (3) 2022-02-07 2023-02-27 2023-02-27
  11. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (3) 2022-03-21 2023-04-10 2024-03-04
  12. NEP-SBM: Small Business Management (3) 2023-11-13 2024-03-04 2024-05-20
  13. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (2) 2023-03-27 2023-04-10
  14. NEP-EDU: Education (2) 2009-12-19 2009-12-19
  15. NEP-EEC: European Economics (2) 2009-09-26 2019-02-11
  16. NEP-INO: Innovation (2) 2021-09-27 2023-11-13
  17. NEP-IUE: Informal and Underground Economics (2) 2024-01-01 2024-02-12
  18. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (2) 2019-02-11 2019-09-30
  19. NEP-BAN: Banking (1) 2022-03-21
  20. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2023-11-13
  21. NEP-BIG: Big Data (1) 2021-02-01
  22. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2024-02-12
  23. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (1) 2024-03-04
  24. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2021-03-22
  25. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (1) 2011-07-21
  26. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (1) 2016-05-21
  27. NEP-ICT: Information and Communication Technologies (1) 2011-07-21
  28. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2019-02-11
  29. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-09-27
  30. NEP-KNM: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy (1) 2024-05-20
  31. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2022-01-17
  32. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2019-09-30
  33. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2019-09-30
  34. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2019-09-30

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