In this study we analyse wage rigidity at the individual level in Italy, presenting evidence from the 1989-1995 Survey of the Bank of Italy. A deep statistical analysis is carried out, replicatingprevious approaches by McLaughlin, Card and Hyslop and Kahn over similar US data. We alsopropose...

In this paper inverse problems for iterated function systems are studied by optimization techniques. Some extentions to place dependent probabilities are also studied.

A client's importance is never the same for a manager, as it is not supposed to be beneficial. Managing to see the difference between client and client and dealing according to that is a focus point in the study of a bussinness' situation. A modern marketing strategy cannot go without a precise...

In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Giniindex on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationshi between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments and...

Household savings are to be protected by Authorities for ethical, social and economic reasons. However, inflation, unfair taxation, expropriations without just compensation and financial scandals have repeatedly and heavily affected the wealth of European households also since the end of World...

In this small note an iterated function system on the space of distribution functions isbuilt. The inverse problem is introduced and studied by convex optimization problems. Applicationsof this method to approximation of distribution functions and estimation are presented.

Pareto welfare criterion based on people’s willingness to pay for a project’s output is regarded by many as a narrow interpretation of improvement in social well-being. A broader opinion is that even though poorer individuals may be less able to pay for a particular benefit, they may obtain...