The Italian guaranteed minimum income programme is the topic of a heated debate scarcely supported by empirical evidence. We investigate the effects of the programme on the number of days worked by different types of vulnerable jobseekers who receive the related income transfer from 2019 but are...

Italy has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. A solution, often advocated to incentivize fertility, could be to reform the Italian fiscal system, taking inspiration from the French fiscal family treatment. This would imply introducing the quotient system, where taxation is not on an...

The analysis of highly structured data requires models with unobserved components (random effects) able to adequately account for the patterns of variances and correlations. The specification of the unobserved components is a key and challenging task. In this paper, we first review the...

This study aims at testing an integrated model to estimating the economic impact of fiscal policies. The integration relies on linking a micro simulation model and a macro/meso model based on a biregional SAM (Tuscany-Rest of Italy). This connection represents an attempt to overcome the limits...