The paper, using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth, estimates the intrahousehold distribution of wealth. On the basis of reconstructed data, a large gap between men and women emerges, greater for financial assets than for real assets and in particular for real...

Women's labor force participation is lowest in Italy among the OECD countries. Moreover, the participation rate of married women is positively correlated with their husbands' income. We show that high tax rates together with tax credits and transfers raise the burden for two-earner households,...

Il lavoro analizza le diversi fasi di sviluppo della legislazione italiana sulle pari opportunità e confronta il quadro esistente con le politiche comunitarie e le legislazioni di altri paesi europei; l'obiettivo è individuare quali iniziative normative, altrove sperimentate, potrebbero...

I divari di genere sul mercato del lavoro, ai vertici delle imprese, nelle retribuzioni restano significativi in Italia. Nel lavoro, che sintetizza i principali risultati di un progetto di ricerca volto a individuare gli effetti economici e le principali cause di tali divari, vengono discusse...

In this paper we estimate the short-run elasticity of substitution between male and female workers, using data on employment and wages from Italian provinces from 1993-2006. We adopt a production function approach similar to that of Card and Lemieux (2001a) and Acemoglu, Autor and Lyle (2004)....

The paper estimates the gender wage gap in Italy, taking into account two salient features of the economy: the low rate of women’s labour market participation and the high share of self-employment. It exploits the Bank of Italy’s survey on household income and wealth, which contains...

This work analyzes the evolution of the labour force participation rate in Italy, as compared with the other main euro-area countries in the last decade. It breaks down the dynamics of the activity rate into the portion due to changes in the average socio-demographic characteristics of the...

In this paper I assess the responsiveness of Italian wage rates to labor market conditions and show that the specific wage measure considered has important consequences for the results. The cyclical response of wages measured by National Accounts is dampened by a number of measurement issues; on...

We analyse the evolution of capital and labour (mis)allocation across firms in five euro-area countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) and eight main sectors of the economy during the period 2002-2012. Three key stylized facts stand out. First, in all countries except Germany,...

This article offers a descriptive analysis of the relationship between cultural factors and female participation in the labour market. Using attitudinal variables from the World Value Survey, the correlation between female labour market participation and two aspects of culture (religion and...