In the last decades, and particularly in the Nineties, the European Economy has been widely characterised by regional disparities. This paper aims to evaluate if different regional economic structures, such as productive mix and labour market composition, contribute to this disarities and to...

Il presente lavoro analizza le determinanti dell'attività gratuita per un'associazione di volontariato, un'associazione non di volontariato, un partito politico ed un sindacato, usando dati ufficiali dell'Indagine Multiscopo sulle Famiglie, Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana, dell'Istituto Nazionale...

An important issue in the design of sustainable Long Term Care policies is the relative social cost of community or home based care versus institutional care. Here we undertake this cost comparison making use of the findings from the GALCA surveys on Long Term Care in Denmark, Ireland and Italy...

The paper analyses the labour market in a framework of New Keynesian Economics (NKE). The aim of the NKE is to provide micro foundations to the main result of the Keynesian model, that is the rigidity of prices and wages as well as the presence of non market clearing equilibria. In the first...

This paper investigates an open economy macrodynamic model on Harrodian lines. The analysis starts with a reconsideration of the post-Keynesian ThirlwallâÂÂs approach to growth in open economy. We cast doubt on the Thirlwall idea aimed at rendering the concept of HarrodâÂÂs foreign trade...

Il paper si colloca nell'attuale dibattito politico-istituzionale in Europa sugli incentivi allo sviluppo locale e sulla promozione di imprese innovative dal basso. Il paper, tra le diverse politiche, si focalizza sul progetto di riforma del welfare basato sul decentramento, inteso come...

Two aspects play a role in the household decision-making, the efficiency and the bargaining power’s argument. The crucial difference between the two approaches is the expected influence of personal and partners’ wage. To investigate which of the two models hold, in the Italian context, we...

Taking into account the economic consequences of obesity highlighted in literature (Cawley, 2004), this study investigates the association between overweight and skill attainment at the university of Salerno in Italy, with particular focus on gender differences. Our findings indicate a...

In this paper we describe some interesting applications of the Coalitional Game in Cancer Diagnosis. Particularly we illustrate specific studies that starting from the description of the Microarray Technology apply game theoretical tools able to improve the analysis of genes’ expression data....

In this paper we propose an ecological and evolutionary model for the historical comparative analysis of some major changes in national public welfare systems. In section 1 the essential features of the conceptual framework are outlined, by shortly reviewing some recent works developed by...