Social mobility across generations is one of the fundamental characteristics of a society. The possibility to improve one’s own life condition constitutes a strong incentive to the development and improvement of abilities, innovations, and effort to work, from which is not only the single individual that benefits from this but the whole collectivity.
Abstract Critically low employment rates and discrimination against women by firms, despite higher academic achievement of women than men, demonstrate the great gender equality in the Italian labour market. Social structures and cultural expectations result in gender inequality in domestic work and care responsibilities, leading to obstacles in the labour market for women. A trade-off …
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The main purpose of this paper is to deal with a very complex and wide subject: inequality. When it comes to define this concept one of the major measures taken into account refers to economic and income factors.
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