Following Sen’s approach to poverty, the ‘real’ poor are those who did not have the choice not to be poor. In other words, poor is an individual who did not have the capability (i.e. the possibility, the ability) to have ...

Si `e pi `u volte osservato in letteratura come gli approcci non parametrici alla stima della frontiera di produzione siano scarsamente robusti rispetto alla presenza di valori eccezionali. Il presente lavoro propone una ...

Several studies highlight that the labour market entry is strongly influenced by informal relational networks (friendship and kinship). Given that informal networks have a relevant role in job position, the present work ...

Questo lavoro d’analisi nasce da un’elaborazione tratta da una recente e rilevante ricerca sul lavoro in Italia. Rispetto al campione nazionale sono stati da noi analizzati i dati relativi al sottocampione del Triveneto. ...

Grahn (1995) introduced the Conditional Least Squares estimators for the class (I) of bilinear models. These estimators have a variance which is difficulty to derive analytically. In this paper we derive the conditions ...

In this paper we assess the evolution of employment and wage inequality in Europe and the US labour markets over the past two decades. We find that the salient trends in wage structures are more complicated than implied ...