The aim of this paper is to measure the effect of the interaction between age for the population of males and females aged 18 to 74 and region-level GDP per capita on labour market transition probabilities in Italy. We compare different occupational states in a sample of males and females who...

The voluntary mobility of employees who change employers for a better job remains an unexplored area of labour market transitions in many European countries. We analyse whether and how the recent great economic recession has contributed to modifications in such voluntary job mobility when...

We examine the effects of various motives to save money on the propensity of Italian households to allocate an unexpected inheritance towards consumption. To achieve this objective, we use microdata collected by the Bank of Italy in a structured questionnaire as part of the Italian Survey of...

Motivated by an interest in investigating factors associated with poverty risks in Italy, our study provides insight into the relationship between various socio-economic, demographic, and behavioural variables and a new measure of the economic inadequacy of households. We propose that a...

Our aim is to develop a pyramid of Okun's coefficient by age and gender in the Italian labour force using a varying-coefficient model. The unemployment rate by age and gender -- useful information for estimating Okun's relationship -- is not available for Italy from official statistics....

Several studies have shown a positive correlation between investment in machinery and equipment (M&E) and economic growth. For this reason, it is very important for policy-makers to study the dynamics of investments and their expected evolution over time through forecast scenarios. The paper...