This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both unemployment duration and the associated income loss;...

This paper presents the Inclusive Green Energy index (IGE) to evaluate the progress in achieving the key dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) nº 7, which entails ensuring “access to affordable, sustainable and modern energy for all”. The key aspects of this index are: (i) it...

These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for...