In the last decade, and especially in the course of the recent global economic slowdown, the gap between southern and northern industry has widened. Industrial investment and employment decreased more sharply in the South than in the rest of Italy, and the contribution of the southern regions to...

Il presente lavoro costituisce un aggiornamento, per quanto riguarda i soli impatti economici, di una nostra precedente ricerca cofinanziata dalla Regione Toscana e pubblicata nel volume curato da Cheli e Luzzati (2010) La Solvay in Val di Cecina. Ricadute socio-economiche e ambientali di una...

Income based measures are inadequate for studying poverty as a state of hardship in living conditions. Nevertheless, research on poverty dynamics seems to remain based on income alone. Moreover, spells usually replace individuals or households as units of analysis leading to a concentration on...

In this paper we aim at studying poverty dynamics and the socio-demographic factors influencing it; alternative measures for the definition of the concept of poverty, making use of panel regression models, are compared. The introduction of two alternative measures is necessary in order to...