The aim of this paper is to measure the effect of the interaction between age for the population of males and females aged 18 to 74 and region-level GDP per capita on labour market transition probabilities in Italy. We compare different occupational states in a sample of males and females who...

What mechanisms govern the mobility of employees who voluntarily switch employers for better opportunities, given a temporary contract? We attempt to answer this question by exploring this issue in Southern and Central European countries. We use cross-sectional data from the European Union...

Credit risk scoring predictions represent an effective guide for lenders to discriminate between potential good (who will repay the loan) and bad (who will default) borrowers in the online social lending market. A common characteristic of such a market is a lower percentage of defaulted...

We use a semiparametric bivariate probit model to explore the determinants of the conditional probability that a household has informal loans given objective or subjective liquidity constraints regarding access to credit through banking channels. In our empirical study, we use Italian microdata...

The voluntary mobility of employees who change employers for a better job remains an unexplored area of labour market transitions in many European countries. We analyse whether and how the recent great economic recession has contributed to modifications in such voluntary job mobility when...

We examine the effects of various motives to save money on the propensity of Italian households to allocate an unexpected inheritance towards consumption. To achieve this objective, we use microdata collected by the Bank of Italy in a structured questionnaire as part of the Italian Survey of...

Motivated by an interest in investigating factors associated with poverty risks in Italy, our study provides insight into the relationship between various socio-economic, demographic, and behavioural variables and a new measure of the economic inadequacy of households. We propose that a...

Our aim is to develop a pyramid of Okun's coefficient by age and gender in the Italian labour force using a varying-coefficient model. The unemployment rate by age and gender -- useful information for estimating Okun's relationship -- is not available for Italy from official statistics....

We propose using a system of three equations with binary responses to explore the determinants of a household receiving a private monetary transfer from three different types of informal lenders in Italy. First, we observe that a semi-parametric specification of the system of equations is...