The risk society has profoundly changed our way of life. Among the social phenomena most affected by its effects is undoubtedly political participation and the degree of trust in institutions. This work aims, through the construction of two different indices, to answer the question "How does the...

Country Risk (CR) is a relevant instrument to analyze and understand economic performances and relationships between different countries in the actual economic and political international globalized context. The present work develops indexes for the European Union countries by applying three...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to answer the following research questions: Is the knowledge of a city environment a stimulus for entrepreneurship? Which knowledge profiles of cities are more propulsive in order to stimulate entrepreneurship? Design/methodology/approach: In order to...

Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between the strength of innovative entrepreneurial ecosystems and subjective well-being in 43 European smart cities. Subjective well-being is operationalized by a Quality of Life (QOL) survey that references the level of multidimensional...

Il Benessere Equo e Sostenibile nelle citt¨¤ (URBES) Report, drawn up by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) offers a set of relevant indicators to assess the quality of life (QoL) in fourteen big Italian cities. These indicators belong to the twelve dimensions of well-being identified...

The present paper puts forward a method of calculation of Country Risk based on Factor Analysis and applies it to Southern Mediterranean and Central-Eastern European countries. In this work we propose a method for estimating Country Risk using factorial analysis (Factorial Country Risk Index –...

The present paper studies whether labour market deregulation is correlated with employment creation in Italy and the decline of trade union power. Our hypothesis is that the correlation does not hold, and that flexible contracts facilitated the dichotomy between industry and tertiary, without...

Progress in health is usually measured by means of indicators of health status such as premature mortality ratio or life expectancy. There is evidence that in more developed countries, despite general health improvement, inequalities in health among individuals are worsening. Most of these...