(English) The Italian population is ageing at a considerable pace and will continue so even more intensively in the next decades, when the more crowded generations of the baby boom of the sixties of the last century will be entering old age. The impact of this growing number of elderly is an...

This article focuses on the gender gap in housework and childcare in Italian couples, one of the widest in Europe. Italian women still carry out three-quarters of domestic work and two-thirds of childcare. Following a considerable amount of literature, we focus on three possible theoretical...

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(English) In 1998 the Institute for Research on the Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) launched an Observatory on Reproductive Intentions. This involves the annual collection of data on the decisions of Italian women as to whether to have children or not and changes over time are monitored....

(English) The research presented in this report concerns the results of a survey on the quality of life of men and women with more than 65 years who do not work and live in 6 Italian cities. The cities have been chosen on the basis of the ranking of Italian provinces built by Legambiente in...

(English) The report presents data from a survey carried out by the Irpps-CNR in the context of its participation with the Accademia delle Scienze to the project funded by the Ministry of Education, L.6/2000 "Biodiversity: an essential resource of nature. Knowledge and appreciation through...

(English) The article afford the issue of human resources in Italy and the contribution that its development might have to a sustainable recovery of the Italian economy. With the start of the new seven-year program of the European Social Fund (ESF), there is a concrete opportunity of consistent...

(English) One of the recurrent criticisms to the cosmopolitan democracy project has been that it has not highlighted which are the political and social forces that will have an interest to pursue this agenda. This criticism is addressed in this paper, showing that there are a variety of actions...

(English) Aim of this paper is to investigate into the differences in the first treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) among Italian regional health care systems, by focusing on the regional distribution of in-hospital deaths. Starting from the theoretical care pathway (from the onset of...