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...

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...

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...

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...

Starting from EU-SILC data, a sample survey that defines the harmonised lists of target primary (annual) and secondary (every four years or less frequently) variables transmitted to Eurostat by the 27 countries, we have chosen a set of about fifty indicators on a qualitative basis. An...