JOB SATISFACTION AND TELEWORKING: A STUDY ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION WORKERS IN ITALY

This paper presents the results of one of the first surveys carried out in Italy on the living and working conditions of public administration employees who were engaged in compulsory telework during the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020). Although this study examines a small sample of public workers in Campania region, interesting results emerge in a modelling implementation. In fact, by means of a heteroskedastic Ordered Probit model, some findings are presented with job satisfaction being the response variable. Considering the workers’ need to adjust to a completely novel situation, our results reveal a significant role played by a potential lack of concentration and by the satisfaction of using their own home as a workplace as well as by the differences experienced in work efforts. The presence of children in the household turns out to be slightly significant, whereas childcare duties do seem to exert some impacts on job satisfaction, implying relevant effects on work-life balance. Workers’ concern regarding a possible lack of recognition of their job by supervisors or managers is also highlighted

Chi semina vento raccoglie tempesta. Il mercato del lavoro italiano prima e dopo il covid-19

Secondo gli ultimi dati pubblicati dall’Istat e relativi al mercato del lavoro, in Italia nel solo mese di dicembre del 2020 si è assistito a un pesantissimo calo dell’occupazione, un nuovo aumento del numero di disoccupati, un consistente aumento degli inattivi. L'articolo illustra come la configurazione delle conseguenze della crisi – più forti su determinati soggetti, tipi di lavori e aree territoriali – sia il frutto delle scelte e delle decisioni che abbiamo operato ben prima che il Coronavirus arrivasse a sconvolgerci la vita, scelte che hanno mostrato, nel momento attuale, solo in maniera più evidente i loro limiti e la loro inadeguatezza, la loro incapacità di determinare miglioramenti strutturali sul mercato del lavoro sul quale erano intervenute

Lyceum and university aspirations among migrants and non-migrants in Italy

Scholars have argued that, on average, immigrant students are ‘optimists’ and have higher educational aspirations than non-migrant students after account-ing for students' socio-economic background and educational performance. However, ethnic minority groups, which proxy the different origin backgrounds of migrants, may show mixed findings in terms of educational aspirations. This study aims to analyse the lyceum (the most theoretical school in Italy) and university aspirations of migrant-origin students and their Italian counterparts, enrolled respectively in Italian lower (Grade 8: age 13) and upper secondary state schools (Grades 9–11: ages 14–16). The analy-ses are based on data from the Italian Integration of the Second Generation survey conducted during the 2014/15 school year. Our results show that students having Chinese, Moroccan, Moldovan and other non- European Union Eastern European origins assume the lowest levels of lyceum aspiration after also con-sidering compositional effects. Conversely, the larg-est proportion of migrants attending school in Grades 9–11 have higher levels of university aspiration com-pared to non-migrants. When considering the role of migratory generation, lyceum and university aspira-tions are positively associated with the acculturation process of migrants. Furthermore, we found that high family expectations, social relationships and self- perception benefits of studying have positive asso-ciations with both lyceum and university aspirations, especially among migrants