This paper explores the determinants of the heterogeneity in the expenditure behaviors of the Italian households, using the Households Expenditure Survey provided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) for the year 2005. We assume that differences among consumers are associated...

The consumer price indexes for the entire country and those for individual households are weighted arithmetic averages of relative prices, and they differ essentially in terms of their weighting systems. Whereas the former use the proportions of total expenditure on goods and services, the...

Compulsory Communications system data contain important and so far under-investigated information on employment dynamics in Italy. They record all the activations, transformations, fixed-term extensions and anticipated terminations of employment relationships between any worker and employer...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the response of several methods proposed in literature to construct indices for consistent multiple comparison. In this article we consider also the close formal connection between the comparison of preference judgements and the comparison of economic...

Utilizzando i risultati della recente indagine lstat-lsrds/Cnr sull'innovazione tecnologica in Italia, in questo lavoro vengono individuate, attraverso una cluster analysis, le principali tipologie settoriali dell'attivita' innovativa dell'industria manifatturiera italiana considerando,...

This paper aims to pursue two closely connected purposes. The first is to provide a theoretical framework, based on coherence constraints, for a technique of multicriteria analysis that allows to convert a partial pre-order into a total pre-order. The second it to show the possibility of...

This paper raises the problem of the optimal allocation of talent in a gendered perspective. It analyses the transition from education to labor market in Italy, and the way in which gender differences emerge early in the labor market career. Our data establish higher grades for females in both...

We investigate gender differences among Italian self employed graduates focusing on flow data from a ten-year labor market transition matrix (1993-2003). Our data show that tertiary education increases the share of self employment in total employment for male workers but reduces the share for...