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An empirical investigation of the relationship between inequality and growth

Pagano, Patrizio - Banca d'Italia - 2004

This paper studies the correlation between inequality, measured by the Gini coefficent of incomes, and the growth rate … of per capita GDP in a panel of countries between the late 1950s and late 1990s. Inequality Granger causes growth with a … negative coefficient, while growth Granger causes inequality with a positive sign. Quantitatively, the former effect appears …

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The change in job opportunities

Olivieri, Elisabetta - Banca d'Italia - 2012

In the last 15 years the Italian employment structure has undergone some radical changes. As a result, the proportion of high-skilled jobs (managers and professionals) has increased at the expense of medium-skilled jobs (clerks). Differently from the US, in Italy (and in many other European...

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Multidimensional poverty and inequality

Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2014

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional study: the selection of the relevant dimensions; the indicators used to measure them; and the procedures for their...

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Measuring wealth mobility

Neri, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2009

their impact on the analysis of Italian households' mobility across the wealth distribution in the 1989-2004 period. The …

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Determinants of long-run regional productivity: the role of R&D, human capital and public infrastructure

Bronzini, Raffaello; Piselli, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2006

In this paper we estimate the long-run relationship between regional total factor productivity, R&D, human capital and public infrastructure between 1980 and 2001. We take advantage of recent developments panel cointegration techniques that control for endogeneity of regressors to estimate...

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The Italian industrial system between globalization and crisis

Accetturo, Antonio; Bassanetti, Antonio; Bugamelli, Matteo - Banca d'Italia - 2013

This paper describes recent developments in the Italian industrial system and investigates the main factors affecting its competitiveness. Our analysis provides a picture of widespread weaknesses. Production levels in all industries are lower than those before the crisis; with the exception of...

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The secular stagnation hypothesis: a review of the debate and some insights

Pagano, Patrizio; Sbracia, Massimo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

.S. economic growth will be negatively affected by lower contributions of hours worked and education. But some studies also add … income has already been stagnating in the last 30 years for the households in the bottom 99% of the income distribution …

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Endogenous growth in open economies: a surveys

Pozzolo, Alberto Franco - Banca d'Italia - 2004

Endogenous growth has set a new paradigm for macroeconomic analysis. This paper overviews the most relevant theoretical … crosscountry integration on output convergence and for the overall growth performance of the integrated economy, as compared to … main conclusion is that knowledge spillovers can go a long way in explaining the differences in growth performances across …

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Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of 'Secondary' Data -Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries.

Atkinson, A.B.; Brandolini, A. - Banca d'Italia - 2000

Secondary data-set have come to play an increasing role in empirical economic research. This paper examines the major new secondary data-set assembled by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire and the World Bank. We concentrate on its coverage of the OECD countries. We have particularly in mind the user...

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Testing for Stochastic Trends in Series with Structural Breaks.

Busetti, F. - Banca d'Italia - 2000

This paper considers the problem of testing for the presence of stochastic trends in multivariate time series with structural breaks. The breakpoints are assumed to be known. The testing framework is the multivariate Locally Best Invariant test and the common trend test of Nyblom and Harvey.

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