The declining U.S. national saving rate has prompted economists and policymakers to ask, should the federal government encourage household saving, and if so, through which policies? In order to better understand saving programs, this volume provides a systematic and detailed description of...

Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different...

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the15th International Conference on Metal Forming 2014, September 21-24, 2014, Palermo, Italy . The 159 papers are grouped as follows: 1. COATINGS AND SURFACES, 2. EXTRUSION AND DRAWING, 3. FORGING, 4. FORMABILITY, 5. INCREMENTAL FORMING, 6....

This article discusses the case of the minimimum wage for Italy as a policy instrument to foster both social justice and productive efficiency. After briefly reviewing the empirical evidence on the effects of minimum wages upon employment, wage distribution and firm-level reallocation, it...