The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...

During the last fifteen years a notable number of labour market interventions took place in Italy, under two main headings: new regulations and implementation of active and/or passive programmes. The paper reviews a fair number of (subjectively) selected impact evaluation studies published in...

The paper goes over the fundamental lines of the scientific and ethical contribution of Camilo Dagum. Particularly it underlines the social and human nobility of this great scientist which characterized His personal and professional way of life.