This work presents and discusses some of the most important social indicators (height, education, life expectancy and human development index), referring to the Italian regions for the period spanning from 1871 to 2001. According to the data, there was a catching-up process of Southern Italy...

In this paper the irregular sector has a negative influence on innovation, education and economic growth. It is assumed that the illegal behaviour of entrepreneurs has costs in terms of competences that could be useful for innovation adoption. Due to strategic complementarity between education...