Nowadays, a very little attention has been dedicated to gender studies in science and technology. In particular, very few researches deal with women vertical, but also orizontal, segregation in public research institutions. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the phenomenon of glass...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce un quadro descrittivo dei recenti flussi di richiedenti asilo in Italia e nell’Unione Europea. Dopo aver esaminato le dinamiche degli ingressi irregolari e delle richieste di protezione internazionale, si analizzano le differenze a livello europeo...

The paper analyses Islamic finance from the central bank and supervisory authority�s perspective, focusing on the European and Italian context. It depicts a rapidly expanding sector, with recent annual growth rates of between 10 and 15 percent and a geographical presence that now reaches...

This work is the final result of a research project, funded by the Italian Nation Research Centre (CNR) about the cultural identity like integration factor. The project aim was to study, from a business economics perspective, the management system of the cultural sites, belonging to the World...

Italian Abstract:Il lavoro analizza le principali tendenze e le caratteristiche strutturali del settore del turismo in Italia, a cui sono riconducibili oltre il 5 per cento del PIL e oltre il 6 per cento dell’occupazione del Paese. Si mostra come negli anni più recenti il sistema turistico...

Italian Abstract: "Play", "Game" e i Giocchi Pandemici10 anni fa, Franco Ferrarotti, quando scriveva il preface del primo numero di Academicus, definiva estremamente coraggioso la mia decisione di pubblicare la rivista in carta stampata, proprio nell’epoca delle comunicazioni digitali. Un...

This paper provide a review of housing policies implemented in the Municipality of Modena for those tenants living in unaffordable housing. In the first part of the paper we analyze demand and supply for each of these policies, our sources being microdata from the Municipality: we find that...

This work is aimed to investigate factors affecting the decision to remit and to study the motives to employ remittances for investment purposes. To contribute to the discussion on these issues, we decided to integrate the current interpretative framework with new variables which are able to...

Along the last two decades Italian industrial districts have been touched by two main phenomena: internationalization of production and international migration. While the first has been extensively studied, the latter has not received the same degree of attention. This paper shows that...

In this paper we study the evolution of citizenship laws around the world. Our analysis is based on a dataset we compiled to document such evolution in 162 countries in the 1948-2001 period. Our econometric results can be summarized as follows. The legal tradition, as represented by the...