In this paper we use data from the Bank of Italy�s Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) to study what Italian households think of tax evasion, and to estimate their propensity to evade taxes. This propensity turns out to be larger for the self-employed than for employees; within the...

In the Lisbon strategy, Member States committed to making structural reforms to their economies. Within this context, the European Council called for R&D investment to approach 3% of GDP by 2010, of which 2% should come from private sector. At the moment, in Italy R&D investment represents 1,2%...

This is the Editorial of a special issue of the journal Prisma on: "Innovation in Public Administration: Technologies, Services and Outcomes".

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce un’analisi della consistenza e della composizione della forza lavoro pubblica in Italia in una prospettiva comparata tra le diverse aree del Paese. Ne emerge un quadro sfaccettato in cui le dotazioni di personale in alcuni comparti – ad esempio la sanità...