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Disuguaglianza dei redditi individuali e ruolo della famiglia in Italia

D'Alessio, Giovanni; Signorini, Luigi Federico - Banca d'Italia - 2000

The paper compares income inequality of households and individuals. Obviously, the latter is greater than the former; in fact households operate a broad redistribution of resources both between earners and non earners (children, unemployed, housewives), and between earners of unequal income....

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Measurement of income distribution in supranational entities: the case of the European Union

Brandolini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2007

Greater social cohesion is an explicit goal of the European Union. Progress is monitored considering the performance in each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this is a basic information to evaluate the progress of...

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The Distribution of Personal Income in Post-War Italy: Source Description, Date Quality, and the Time Pattern of Income Inequality.

Brandolini, A. - Banca d'Italia - 1999

The paper describes the sample surveys on the personal distribution of incomes conducted in post-war Italy: the first survey carried out by Istituto Doxa in 1947-48; the sample survey of household income and wealth conducted by the Bank of Italy since the late 1960s; the expenditure survey, and...

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The value of flexible contracts; evidence from an italian panel of industrial firms

piero, cipollone; Guelfi, Anita - Banca d'Italia - 2006

engineering sector whose labour costs were reduced by a tax credit granted to firms hiring workers on open-ended rather than fixed … that received the tax credit and those that did not. Potential distortions due to self-selection into the programme, firm … spurious effect of the tax credit in the years when it was not in force. Estimation is carried out in both a parametric and non …

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Hiring incentives and labour force participation in Italy

Cipollone, Piero; Maria, Corrado Di; Guelfi, Anita - Banca d'Italia - 2005

A long-standing economic tradition maintains that labour supply reacts to market tightness; its sensitivity to job quality has received less attention. If firms hire workers with both temporary and open-end contracts, does participation increase when more permanent jobs are available? We...

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Does gender matter for public spending? Empirical evidence from Italian municipalities

Rigon, Massimiliano; Tanzi, Giulia Martina - Banca d'Italia - 2012

This paper studies whether the allocation of municipal expenditure in Italy is influenced by female representation in Municipal Councils. Despite the existence of gender-specific preferences in society, we find no clear evidence that the amount of resources distributed among different spending...

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Delayed privatization

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2008

This paper studies the timing of privatization in 21 major developed economies in the 1977-2002 period. Duration analysis shows that political fragmentation plays a significant role in explaining government's decision to privatize: privatization is delayed longer in democracies characterized by...

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tax credit policy and firms' behaviour: the case of subsidy to open-end labour contract in italy

piero, cipollone; Guelfi, Anita - Banca d'Italia - 2003

In the past decade fixed-term contracts have been widely used to ease the regulatory burden in several European labour markets. Because there is some concern that they might be a dead-end for many worker, policy makers have intervened to increase transitions from fixed-term to open-end...

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Wealth and inequality in Italy

D'Alessio, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2012

The paper describes first the evolution in total household wealth in Italy over the period 1965-2010 before addressing the analysis of wealth inequality. On the basis of reconstructed data, we show that household wealth inequality declined until the beginning of the 1990s. It then grew...

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Do wealth fluctuations generate time-varying risk aversion? Italian micro-evidence on household asset allocation

Cappelletti, Giuseppe - Banca d'Italia - 2012

Data from the Italian Survey of Households Income and Wealth (SHIW) are used to study portfolio allocations change in response to fluctuations in wealth. In particular I test for the prediction of models with habit formation that changes in liquid wealth will affect households' risk aversion and...

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