Generation X’s Revolution

Vision is about to establish the study group which will be engaged with the “Generation X’s Revolution”: the intention is to verify – through a social analysis of different Countries - the hypothesis that a politically relevant class is being born. Such a “class” is defined by professional but most of all generational and cross-border mobility elements.

Structure

• Position paper
• Relevant website and bibliography
• Your opinion
• Opinion poll
• Final report

Relevant website and bibliography

Reset, Trentenni: Generazione in fuga, number 94, March- April Edition 2006

Francesco Sylos Labini and Stefano Zapperi, Lo tsunami dell’Università Italiana, www.la voce.info

L’università in cifre 2005, for further information www.miur.it/ustat/documenti/pub2005/index.asp

For a European comparison http://www.eurydice.org/

Douglas Coupland, Generation X, http://www.coupland.com

O. Ashenfelter, D. Card, Did the elimination of mandatory retirement affect faculty retirement flow?, NBER

Sasha Becker , How large is the brain drain from Italy?,Working Paper, n 839, March 2003

Tommaso Pellizzari, Trenta senza lode, Mondadori, 1999

Generation X, a Kevin Smith’s film