The article examines public finance developments and its medium and long term prospects in the new member States of the European Union. Budget deficits have mostly a structural nature and require timely policy interventions, particularly in the area of social security spending. National economic...

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...

Italian Abstract: Il paper affronta il tema del possibile meccanismo di coordinamento che si può utilizzare per la produzione culturale, e in particolare per la cultura musicale. La nostra riflessione si colloca all’interno delle specifiche innovazioni istituzionali introdotte in Italia con...

General government activity in the field of education has recently assumed new interest due to the importance of two analytical objectives: a) the existence of substitution or complementary processes between public and private expenditure in education; b) the importance of public expenditure in...

We estimate the private (individual) and social return to schooling in Italy and its macro regions. Our estimates take into account the effects of schooling on employment and wages, as well as the key features of the Italian tax and social security system. We find that the individual return to...

In questo lavoro si fornisce unabreve rassegna dei più recenti contributi teorici, sul legame tra distribuzione e crescita, basati sull’incompletezza dei mercati dei capitali Se i mercati dei capitali sono imperfetti e le decisioni individuali di investimento avvengono in condizioni di...

Italian Abstract: Rispetto a pandemie del passato, l’effetto della mortalità da Covid-19 sulla struttura demografica dovrebbe risultare più contenuto. Allo stesso tempo, potrebbero pesare in misura significativa gli effetti comportamentali della crisi economica associata alla pandemia, in...

The aim of this paper is to explain the economic causes and consequences of the sharp decline in Italy’s fertility rate, the most dramatic decline in the world together with that in Japan. The main cause is shown to originate in the mid-seventies: a sudden increase in the unemployment rate...

Assembling information from several sources and a drawing on specially designed new survey, this paper finds that the shortfall in the supply of child care facilities remains large with respect to potential demand but is less severe with respect to the effective demand by households in Italy....

On the basis of a local household survey, this paper examines the economic and social conditions of families with children under fifteen. The analysis refers to a particular area, the province of Modena, one of the richest in Italy, with high female occupation rates and a good deal of public...