Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/ approach: The...

<em>The influence of social and economic factors on competencies of Italian students. A multilevel analysis of data PISA 2006</em> - This work aims to investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ scientific competencies. The "Programme for International Student...

The increasing frequency of single-person households has become a major economic phenomenon, and is likely to become an important political force. This paper focuses on differences related to inequality of income distribution among single-person households in Europe's four largest economies,...