This thesis has the purpose of testing the hypothesis that languages characterized by a strong Future Time Reference (FTR), which foster a grammatical distinction between present and future, lead to a higher likelihood of ...

The topic discussed in this thesis concerns a reality that closely lies at my heart: child labour, in fact, does not just represent an obstacle towards economic and social development, but first of all constitutes a violation ...

The aim of this dissertation is to highlight the importance of re-contextualizing the individual in economic analysis. In particular, the emphasis is placed on human relationality in its non-instrumental form for the study ...

Ogni giorno nel mondo le donne subiscono gli effetti della discriminazione di genere; essa si manifesta in molti ambiti, durante l'interno arco di vita di una donna. Dopo aver analizzato l'evoluzione del concetto di genere, ...

Recent literature of industry dynamics has considered productivity as one of the main source of firm heterogeneity that determines firm performance and growth. The goal of the first chapter on my thesis is to consider ...

After introducing the concept of Welfare State through a historical route and analysing new risks and needs affecting the citizens nowadays, it follows an explanation of the spread of a new paradigm known as “Second Welfare”, ...

The primary objective of this study is to investigate health capital in economic development using life expectancy as a health proxy. As we can divide role of health in economic development into two categories, one is the ...

It is only recently that inequality regained its prominent role in the economic and social debate: have there been some signals and evidences in the underlying social and economic process that we missed to detect and to ...

I progressi nella letteratura di IO empirica attribuibili a Berry (1994) e Berry, Levinsohn e Pakes (1995) (noto come BLP in letteratura) hanno permesso di produrre sofisticate analisi di mercato anche partendo da dati ...