Publications

Maria Laura Di Tommaso

Journal articles

“Nurses Wanted. Is the job too harsh or is the wage too low?” (with  Strøm S., Saether E.M.), Journal of Health Economics, 2009, vol. 28, pp 748-757.

“As bad as it gets. Well being  deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women.” (with Shima, Strøm Bettio). European Journal of Political Economy 2009, vol. 25, pp. 143-162.

“Who’s Watching? The market for Prostitution Services.” (with Della Giusta, Strøm), Journal of Population Economics, 2009, Vol. 22, 2, pp. 501-516.

“What money buys: clients of street sex workers in the US ” (with Della Giusta, Shima, Strøm), Applied Economics, 2009, vol.41,18, pp.2261-2277.

“Home Grown or Imported? Initial Conditions, External Anchors, and the Determinants of Institutional Reform in the Transition Economies” (with M. Raiser and M. Weeks), Economic Journal, 2007, vol 117, pp 858-881. 

“Children capabilities: a structural equation model for India .” Journal of Socio Economics,  2007, vol 36, pp 436-450.

“Book Review of “Sex Work, Mobility and Health in Europe ”, (eds Sophie Day and Helen Ward), Feminist Economics 2007, vol 13, pp. 123-127.

“Identifying Demand and Supply of Part-time Using Personnel Data. An Application to Italy ”, (with U.Colombino) Labour 2000 vol. 14,  4,  pp 609-622.

“A trivariate model of participation, fertility and wages: the Italian case”,  Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1999,  vol 23, 5, pp 623-640.

“Nora Federici e l’economia della famiglia”(with D. Del Boca) Storia del pensiero economico, 1997, vol. 33-34, pp 183-191.

“Is the Preference for Children so Low or is the Price of Time so High? A simultaneous model of fertility and participation in Italy with cohort effects”, (with U.Colombino) Labour, 1996, vol.10, 3, pp 475-493.

“Effetto della riduzione dell’orario standard di lavoro sull’occupazione” (Effect of the reduction of the working time length on occupation),  Economia e Lavoro,  1994, 3-4, pp 235-240.

 

Books

Sex markets: a denied industry,  (con Della Giusta M. e Strøm S.) Routledge 2008.

 

Contributions to books

Inequality, equity and efficiency: two labour market policies, (con Paul Ryan) in Cambridge Essays in Applied Economics a cura di N.Allington and J.McCombie, Cambridge University Press, 2009, forthcoming.

Children capabilities: conceptualisation and measurement issues. Chapter in  Reboud, V., 2006, "Amartya Sen : un économiste du développement?", Notes et Documents, Agence Française de Développement, Paris.

Di Tommaso M.L, Krkoska, Raiser M., Structural Change in Transition, chapter 4 in the Transition Report 1999 –Ten years of transition, European Bank for Reconstructing and Development, London, UK, October 1999.

 

Working Papers

  1. “As bad as it gets. Well being  deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women.” (with Shima I. , Strøm S. Bettio F.). Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo , Memorandum, 09/07, ISSN 0809-8786.
  1. “Nurses Wanted. Is the job too harsh or is the wage too low?” (con  Strøm S., Saether E.M.), Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo , 08/2008, ISSN 0809-8786.
  1.  “How Italian electors react to gender quotas? A random utility model of voting behaviour” (with Bonomi, G., Brosio G.), Working Paper Dept of Economics Cognetti De Martiis, QR 06 N 09.
  1.  “What money buy: clients of street sex workers in the US ”  (with Della Giusta and Strom) CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour, and Demographic economics), Working Paper 12/06 and Discussion Paper Dept. of Economics University of Oslo. ISSN: 0809-8832.
  1. “How to measure Children Wellbeing Using a Capability Approach? An Application to Indian Data through a Multiple Indicator Multiple Casues Model”. CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour, and Demographic economics), Working Paper 05/06
  1.  “To what extent fuzzy set theory and structural equation modelling can measure functionings? An application to child well being”,  (with Tindara Addabbo e Gisella Facchinetti), Discussion Papers, no.- 468, Dipartimento di Economia Politica,Universita’ di Modena, 2004.
  1. “Another theory of Prostitution”, (with M. Della Giusta e S. Strom) Working Paper no.013 del Centre for Institutional Performance, University of Reading , UK , 2004.
  1. “Partnered women’s labour supply decisions in the light of possible fiscal reforms”, CHILD (Centre for Household, Income, Labour, and Demographic economics), (con  S. Dex, R. Rowthorn) Working paper 14/2002, 2002.
  1. “The Measurement and Determination of Institutional Change: Evidence from Transition Economies”, (con M. Raiser and M. Weeks), Department of Applied Economics Working Paper No. 0029, University of Cambridge ,  2001.
  1. “Decision Structures and Discrete Choice: An application to Labour Supply and Fertility”, (con M. Weeks) Department of Applied Economics Working Paper No. 0009, University of Cambridge , Ottobre 2000.
  1. The creation of a Panel Database for Transition Economies, (with Melvyn Weeks) mimeo, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge , UK , Nov. 1999.

  2.  Women’s labour supply decisions in the light of possible fiscal reforms, (con S.Dex and B. Rowthorn) Working Paper, The Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge , WP36/99, 1999.

  3.  Identifying demand and supply of part time jobs using company data. An application to Italy” (with U. Colombino) Quaderno di Ricerca, Dipartimento di Economia Cognetti de Martiis, Universita’ di Torino, QR, no. 08, 1999.
  1. Offerta di lavoro e scelte di procreazione: un’analisi micro-econometrica su dati italiani, (Fertility and labour supply: a micro econometric analysis on Italian data),  Tesi di dottorato, Gennaio 1997.