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[expatinuk]

According to an article in Inside Higher Ed.... Milan is shopping for academics.

http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/09/braindrain

[epistephiliac]

Good article. I've only been on the student end of the Italian university system, but I do have friends who are professors there. It's true that it's a crazy labyrinth: I often say that the fact that the modern western university was born there explains why universities all over the world are known for their headache-inducing bureaucracy. Which is, as the article points out, characteristic of the country in general. It's not an easy place to live.

Milan would definitely not be my first choice of city, either, but one could do worse.

[donstefano]

Italy, yes, but only as a full prof. Assistant prof earn less there than what I got as a phd student, and Milan is not exactly cheap. That's why they all have  a second job and the academic work suffers. But yes, Bocconi is doing efforts - often vacancies in my field. And they have money incentives for publishing.