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Piacentino Davide
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Early Propensity to Migrate: A Descriptive Analysis from A Survey of Schooled Teenagers in a Southern Italian City
2018
The brain drain from the south of Italy is a well-known and unfortunately increasingly alarming phenomenon. In recent times, the demographic decline due to migration has been coupled by a worrying decrease in the average age at which this process starts. While most of the existing literature has looked at the problem looking at migrant workers, especially in relation to their level of schooling or education, here we look at the propensity to migrate at an earlier stage of life while people are still in their secondary school studies. Using a unique field survey conducted over a large sample of students in the city of Palermo we uncover that more than three quarters of the interviewed sample…
Book of Short Papers SIS 2018
2018
This book includes the papers presented at the "49th Meeting of the Italian Statistic Society". The conference has registered 445 participants, 350 reports divided into 4 plenary sessions, 20 specialised sessions, 25 sessions solicited, 27 sessions spontaneous, 2 poster sessions. The high number of participants, the high quality of the interventions, the productive spirit of the conference, the ability to respect the time table, are the main indices of the full success of this conference. The meeting hosted also, as plenary sessions, the ISTAT annual report 2018, and a round table on statistics and job markets. Methodological plenary sessions concerned with ordinal data, the dynamics of cli…