...Graziella Bonanno; Antonio Alvarez Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the gender wage gap in Italy by adopting a Stochastic Frontier Approach, with the aim of assessing whether gender differences persist after controlling for individual and job-related characteristics and how...

... and social capital in heritage cultural participation in Italy as well as the first study in literature on cultural participation that analyses the interplay between human capital and social relations. Our findings reveal many insights on the determinants of Italians’ cultural heritage participation. First...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Public debt Forecasting Random forest Machine learning Italy H63 H68 E17 The accuracy of public debt forecasts has historically represented a key policy issue (Barro, 1980 ; Bernheim...

... of an improvement in the health conditions of workers is relevant in Italy, where the level of labour productivity is low compared to the other developed countries (OECD, 2013). Policy makers should consider the benefits, both at social and economic level, of public policies designed to improve the social...

...Oliviero A. Carboni; Claudio Detotto Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to employ provincial data to study the relationship between several crime typologies, namely murder, robbery, extortion and fraud and economic output in Italy. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose...

...Davide Antonioli; Massimiliano Mazzanti; Paolo Pini Purpose This paper seeks to examine the relationships between working conditions, innovation activities and industrial relations in two local production systems located in the northern Italy, exploiting data collected through ad‐hoc...

.... © MCB UP Limited 2001 Economics History Italy Competitive strategy Pricing This paper aims to carry out a first acknowledgement of the works which Attilio da Empoli dedicated to the creation and application of the concept of ultramarginal cost in the second half of the 1920s...

... to those which are deductible by mathematical reasoning” (Edgeworth, 1899, p. 310). Although their exchange was far from over at this moment, Edgeworth never revealed later what these six errors might be. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Economics History Taxation Italy Attilio da Empoli’s...