Ricerc@Sapienza

Exploiting a genealogy of English individuals living in the 16th to the 19th centuries, this study shows that lower parental reproductive capacity positively affected the socio-economic achievements of offspring. Using the time interval between the date of marriage and the first birth as a measure of reproductive capacity, we find that parental fecundity positively affected the number of siblings and that children of parents with lower fecundity were more likely to become literate and employed in skilled and high-income professions.

This book collects the main output of the researches on gender studies issues,
entrepreneurship, and human capital presented at the Annual Workshop of IPAZIA
2019 of Rome in Italy. Interestingly, this book is directed to provide a renewed and
fruitful analysis of these topics with the purpose of advancing the gender theories in
the international context. This book includes a preface by the Editors Paola Paoloni
and Rosa Lombardi and 14 chapters contributed by several scholars, addressing
specific issues in the field of gender studies as follows.

Die letzten Jahrzehnte haben enorme Veränderungen im ökonomischen, politischen und sozialen Bereich gezeitigt. Im Licht der Vorherrschaft des Neoliberalismus, der zur aktuellen Weltwirtschaftskrise geführt hat, lohnt es sich zu fragen, ob und inwieweit es noch möglich ist, eine marxistische Analyse der heutigen Zeit zu versuchen. In der Absicht, einige Überlegungen in dieser Richtung anzustrengen, soll hier besonders zwei zentralen Fragen bei der Analyse von Marx nachgegangen werden: der Theorie des Wertes und dem Konzept der „Real-Abstraktion“.

The aim of the study is to investigate whether discrimination factors exist within professional football clubs, concerning the management of their human capital, by analysing the correlation between the footballers’ wages and their performance. An analysis was conducted to show that discrimination, based both on nationality and race, can affect the strategies adopted by football club managers and in the professional footballer labour market, where players are considered to be the human capital of football enterprises.