The aim of this paper is to explore the use of administrative data to study the choices of firms relating to the utilization of regular and irregular workers. The data are collected by the INPS (National Social Security Administration) during inspection activity aimed to catch irregular workers...

This paper uses longitudinal data for a sample of Italian firms to study the effects of technological and organisational changes on wage levels and on wage differentials by skills inside the firm. Fixed effect estimates reveal that technological changes are associated with higher absolute and...

Il premio di prezzo è solo una componente, non marginale, sicuramente la più caratteristica e facilmente comunicabile, ma certamente non decisiva nel modello Fair Trade. L’avere incentrato l’attenzione su questo specifico aspetto del meccanismo complessivo ha nascosto altri aspetti più...

The paper surveys different approaches to the estimation of the underground economy. First, the focus is on the methodologies adopted by the Italian and French Statistical Institutes, respectively based on the exhaustive estimate of the labour input and on tax compliance data. Secondly, we...

In this paper, we investigate on the determinants of the size of shadow economy (SE) in Latin America. While the analysis of economic causes of SE has been extensively studied in literature, here we offer a wider prospective. In addition to overall economic development, unemployment rate, and...

Italian Abstract: La criminalità organizzata condiziona lo sviluppo socio-economico dei territori dove è radicata attraverso una molteplicità di canali. Analizzare tali effetti è tuttavia difficile, anche per l’impossibilità di osservare e misurare con certezza la presenza mafiosa....