This work is based on the analysis of the public and private support to education and human capital development in two specific national contexts: the U.S. and Italy. Recent researches have firmly demonstrated the value of higher levels of education for socio-economic development, poverty...

The traditional analysis of unemployment in relation to real output dynamics is based on some empirical evidences deducted from Okun's studies. In particular the so called Okun's Law is expressed in a linear mathematical formulation, which cannot explain the fluctuation of the variables...

The aim of this study is to analyze the data on both GDP per capita and HDI related to the member States of European Union for the period from 1990 to 2010 in order to verify if these data are more related to the macro-region to which each State belongs than to European area. In particular, this...

In this paper Okun'(tm)s law is tested for six European selected countries in order to compare the responsiveness of unemployment to economic growth over the period 1981-2010. In the first section there is a survey of scientific works that have observed the empirical relationship between growth...