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...

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...

Il presente studio mira a valutare le differenze di genere nelle transizioni tra stati nel mercato del lavoro italiano. Il più basso tasso di occupazione femminile rispetto a quello maschile è spiegato sia da una più breve permanenza nell'occupazione che da una minore probabilità di entrare...

Using different econometric specifications this paper analyzes the relationship between the time parents spend with their children, child-related expenditure and the results obtained by them, with particular attention to gender differences. The authors use PSID-CDS data from 1997 to 2007 and...

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 paper revisits stylized facts on female labour force participation, employment and unemployment, using a unified and up-to-date dataset with comparable information for high-income (HI) and middle-low income (MLI) countries. We find that: (i) global trends in labour supply in the last 30...

The paper analyses the main differences in the financial structure of Italian and European non financial corporations in the 2004-2007 period, that is during the years before the financial crisis. The research is based on individual balance sheets of Amadeus (Analyse Major Databases from...

The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop in GDP and compared with the recession of the early 1990s. This work shows that these data should be interpreted with caution, however. Firstly, employment trends as measured...