Essays in Labour Economics: mobility, gender and generational perspectives

My works focus on three vulnerable actors in the labor market: the unemployed, the mothers, and the youth. Inequality is a phenomenon that can be studied from various perspectives, and that’s what I have attempted to do in my PhD path. The first chapter theoretically examines local shocks’ effects on income inequality, employment, and living costs via a search and matching model calibrated with German data. Results show limited employment gains but significant impacts on housing prices and income inequality, particularly affecting poorer and unemployed individuals due to non-homothetic utility functions. The second chapter investigates how women’s emancipation, measured by regional employment rates and female-headed households, influences aggregated student mobility using a gravity model on Italian data. Results reveal a “mother-hen” effect: the more emancipated women are in terms of salary and employment, the less temporary migration for education. The third chapter explores the relationship between European policies for young Italian farmers and their business improvement, measured by Return on Equity. The study utilizes individual-level data from 2008 to 2020, showing the positive relationship between dedicated funding and young farmers’ economic performance through various regression models.