From the gender equality and social inclusion perspective, this report provides a concise overview of the employment and activity of women and men in the 55-64 age group (i.e. the last 10-year cohort of the working-age population) and of the activity of women and men in the 65-74 age group in...

Over the past 20 years, Italy has realised changes in labour legislation, leading to a decentralisation of wage bargaining and increased flexibility in labour relations. Both these factors have helped to curb wage growth and to enhance employment growth, but have also led to a crisis in Italian...

This chapter deals with the empirical testing of the potential trade-off between flexibility and productivity growth by using firm-level data. The model of reference relies on various works by Sylos-Labini, The model is estimated on data from the 9th “Indagine sulle imprese manifatturiere”,...

pt. 1. There is difference in difference : diversity and heterogeneity -- pt. 2. Difference, behavior and aggregative analysis -- pt. 3. On gender diversity -- pt. 4. An application : gender diversity in the labor market.

This note reflects upon the methodological principles that Paolo Sylos Labini (1920-2005) brought to his work as a political economist. Sylos Labini drew upon history, political science, sociology and philosophy in order to explain economic processes, and he insisted that an interdisciplinary...

Marcella Corsi and her co-workers analyze the social and economic impact that microfinance programmes have on participant's lives, particularly on women in the Mediterranean countries. They identify the changes of the women who took part in the microcredit programme. They examine the consumption...