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Innovation and Government Payments in the Italian Digital Agenda
Arpaia, Carlo Maria - 2013
We examine the main items on the European and the Italian Digital Agenda and the rules of the Digital Administration Code, in particular on-line payments. We then highlight the part played by the Bank of Italy in overall administrative modernization through its role as provider of the State...
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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History Dependent Growth Incidence : A Characterization and an Application to the Economic Crisis in Italy
Palmisano, Flaviana - 2013
The aim of this paper is to propose an axiomatic characterization of an aggregate measure of growth that takes into account the initial economic conditions of individuals, through their position in the initial income distribution. The contribution of our work to the existing literature is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085384
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Wealth Inequality in Italy : Reconstruction of 1968-75 Data and Comparison with Recent Estimates
Cannari, Luigi - 2018
This paper provides a reconstruction of the joint distribution of Italian households' income and wealth in the years ranging from 1968 to 1975. Exploiting the information available in some historical reports recently published by the Bank of Italy, the paper reconstructs synthetic microdata...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921192
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The Mobility of Italy's Middle Income Group
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2018
The bulk of economic studies on income distribution focus on the poor and/or on the rich, mostly ignoring those who fall between these two categories. Research on the polarisation of incomes reverses this perspective, considering the middle-income group as a crucial element of analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930488
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Social Distance between Workers : An Application to Italian Geographic Areas
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper is concerned with the measurement of social distance, clustering, or polarization between workers of a given society. This concept is fundamentally different from that of inequality and thus cannot be measured by any Lorenz consistent index. Similarly, it cannot be additively...
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How can Big Data Improve the Quality of Tourism Statistics? The Bank of Italy’s Experience in Compiling the “Travel” Item in the Balance of Payments
Catalano, Costanza; Carboni, Andrea; Doria, Claudio - 2023
In tourism statistics it is becoming more and more important to identify data sources that are more timely and cheaper than the traditional ones, such as surveys. In this paper, we investigate how mobile phone data (MPD), electronic payments data and internet search data (Google Trends) can...
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Care arrangements and social integration : the concept of social exclusion and empirical findings in five european countries
Theobald, Hildegard - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003573038
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Quality of work : how does it matter in Europe? ; a comparative analysis of four EU states
Wilson, Sally; Lazazzara, Alessandra; Stettes, Oliver; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237845