In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an … measure of opportunity inequality. Then, we repeat the exercise using the cognitive abilities in a sample of 15-year old … students. In both circumstances we find that the less developed regions in the South are characterized by greater incidence of …

In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an … the basis of a measure of opportunity inequality. Then, we repeat the exercise using the cognitive abilities in a sample … of 15-year old students. In both circumstances we find that the less developed regions in the South are characterized by …

reduce health inequality between regions and within regions. … health of individuals (as measured by the height of conscripts) and its disparities between individuals and regions in Italy …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high …

of tertiary-educated immigrants were 16.4% for France, 21.8% for Germany, 15.4% for Italy and 18.5% for Spain. Now …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …Immigration has recently been at the centre of the political and economic agenda. Economists have studied extensively …