Study (Ilfi) and show that employment opportunities have changed significantly in Italy over the past three decades (from …

complements. We take advantage of a unique firm-level panel data set from the Bank of Italy Survey of Industrial and Service Firms …

that the Bank of Italy has carried out since 1999, with a reconstruction of the aggregate time series to 1989. We have …

Since it became a united country, Italy was looked at with keen eyes by foreign economists, economic historians and …

The history of Italy since her unification in 1861 reflects the two-way relationship between foreign trade and economic …, Italy's comparative advantage changed fundamentally over the last 150 years. The composition of trade, in terms of both … document and analyze these changes. We will conclude with an assessment of Italy's prospects from a historical perspective. …

The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of …

undervaluations or overvaluations of the lira/euro have on Italy's growth? We address these questions by presenting, first, three main … former sector, increasing exports and real GDP. We then turn to Italy and verify empirically that, as the theory suggests … their determinants and draw the implications for Italy's economic growth. …

After the Golden Age, Italy experienced increasing difficulties in adjusting its economy to the changing external … is common to advanced countries but the difficulties experienced in Italy look particularly severe. Cushioned by …

received interpretation of Italian economic development. Against this backdrop, the Bank of Italy, Istat and the University of … national accounts time series. Our reconstruction covers the 150 years following the political unification of Italy and is …