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Giuliana Parodi Dario Sciulli
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Editors
Social Exclusion
Short and Long Term Causes
and Consequences
Prof.Giuliana Parodi Asst.Prof.Dario Sciulli
Dipartimentodi MetodiQuantitativi Dipartimentodi MetodiQuantitativi
e TeoriaEconomica e TeoriaEconomica
Università ‘‘G.d’Annunzio’’ Università ‘‘G.d’Annunzio’’
diChieti-Pescara diChieti-Pescara
Viale Pindaro42 Viale Pindaro42
65127Pescara 65127Pescara
Italy Italy
[email protected] [email protected]
ISSN 1863-916X
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-7908-2772-9
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Acknowledgments
This book contains a collection of papers, most of which have been presented at
thethematicsessionon‘‘SocialExclusion’’oftheXXVAnnualConferenceofthe
Italian Association of Labour Economists (AIEL), held at the University
‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ of Chieti-Pescara in September 2010.
All the papers, before being published, have been submitted to a double blind
peer-review process. This has been possible thanks to the contributions of the
referees: all the papers have benefited from their valuable suggestions.
We are also indebted with various institutions that have provided us the
financialsupportthathas madepossiblethispublication.We wouldliketothank:
the Italian Association of Labour Economists, the Camera di Commercio, Indu-
stria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Chieti, the Camera di Commercio, Industria,
Artigianato e Agricoltura di Pescara, the Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi
e Teoria Economica of the Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, the
Facoltà di Scienze Manageriali of the Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-
Pescara and the Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara.
Referees
Luca Beltrametti, Università di Genova, Italy
Roger A. Bowles, University of York, UK
Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Università Parthenope di Napoli, Italy
Sergio Destefanis, Università di Salerno, Italy
Donata Favaro, Università di Padova, Italy
Renata Livraghi, Università di Parma, Italy
Emanuele Millemaci, Università di Messina, Italy
Catia Nicodemo, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Carmen Pagliari, Università G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Giuliana Parodi, Università G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Matteo Picchio, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Cristina Salvioni, Università G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Dario Sciulli, Università G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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vi Acknowledgments
Antonello Scorcu, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marcello Signorelli, Università di Perugia, Italy
Peter J. Sloane, University of Swansea and IZA Bonn, UK
Massimo Tamperi, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
FrancescoTimpano,UniversitàCattolicadelSacroCuore-SedediPiacenza-,
Italy
Ainura Uzagalieva, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Robert J. Waldmann, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Contents
1 Introduction and Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Giuliana Parodi and Dario Sciulli
Part I The Structural and Long Term Causes of Social Exclusion
2 Health, Lifestyle and Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Gianluigi Coppola
3 A Comparative Analysis of Literacy Rate in Contributing
to Social Exclusion Insights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Edgardo Bucciarelli, Carmen Pagliari, Fabrizio Muratore
and Iacopo Odoardi
4 Education and Socioeconomic Mobility in
Post-Communist Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Alina Veraschagina
5 Analysing Industrial Accidents in European Countries
Using Data Envelopment Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Eugenia Nissi and Agnese Rapposelli
Part II Groups Structurally Vulnerable to Social Exclusion
6 Social Exclusion and Offending. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Roger Bowles
7 Disability and Social Exclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Peter J. Sloane and Melanie K. Jones
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8 Civilian Disability Pensions as an Antipoverty Policy Instrument?
A Spatial Analysis of Italian Provinces, 2003–2005 . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Massimiliano Agovino and Giuliana Parodi
Part III Economic Crisis, Labour Markets and Social Exclusion
9 Measuring the Long Wave. Unemployment, Discouragement
and Semi-Employment in Italy, During and After the Crisis . . . . 171
Leonello Tronti and Riccardo Gatto
10 Poverty and Unemployment: The Cases of Italy and Spain . . . . . 199
Tindara Addabbo, Rosa García-Fernández, Carmen Llorca-Rodríguez
and Anna Maccagnan
11 Labour Market Transitions During the Financial
Crisis in Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Marco Lilla and Stefano Staffolani
12 Labour-Market Dynamics and Unemployment: New Scenarios
in the Italian Economy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Carlo Lucarelli and Chiara Mussida
Contributors
Tindara Addabbo Dipartimento di Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio-
Emilia, Modena, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
MassimilianoAgovinoDipartimentodiMetodiQuantitativieTeoriaEconomica,
Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara,
Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Roger Bowles York Criminal Justice Economics York, UK, e-mail: roger.
[email protected]
Edgardo Bucciarelli Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi e Teoria Economica,
Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara,
Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
GianluigiCoppolaDipartimentodiScienzeEconomichee Statistiche,Università
di Salerno Salerno, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Rosa García-Fernández Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y Empresa,
Universidad de Granada Granada, Spain, e-mail: [email protected]
Riccardo Gatto ISTAT Rome, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Melanie K. Jones School of Business and Economics, Swansea University
Swansea, UK, e-mail: [email protected]
Marco Lilla Dipartimento di Economia, Università Politecnica delle Marche,
Ancona, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Carmen Llorca-Rodríguez Departamento de Economía Internacional y de
España, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, e-mail: [email protected]
Carlo Lucarelli Ufficio Formazione e Lavoro, ISTAT, Rome, Italy, e-mail:
[email protected]
Anna Maccagnan Dipartimento di Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio-
Emilia, Modena, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
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x Contributors
Fabrizio Muratore Scuola Superiore, Università ‘‘G. D’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-
Pescara, Pescara, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Chiara Mussida Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Sede di Piacenza, Italy, e-mail: chiara.mussida@
unicatt.it
Eugenia Nissi Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi e Teoria Economica,
Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara,
Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Iacopo Odoardi Scuola Superiore, Università ‘‘G. D’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-
Pescara, Pescara, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Carmen Pagliari Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi e Teoria Economica,
Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara,
Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Giuliana Parodi Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi e Teoria Economica,
Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara,
Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
Agnese Rapposelli Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi e Teoria Economica,
Università ‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara,
Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
DarioSciulliDipartimentodiMetodiQuantitativieTeoriaEconomica,Università
‘‘G. d’Annunzio’’ di Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy,
e-mail: [email protected]
PeterJ.SloaneSchoolofBusinessandEconomics,SwanseaUniversity,Swansea,
UK,e-mail:[email protected]
Stefano Staffolani Dipartimento di Economia, Università Politecnica delle
Marche, Ancona, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
LeonelloTronti Università di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, e-mail: l.tronti@funzione-
pubblica.it
Alina Veraschagina Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Università di Roma La
Sapienza, Rome, Italy, e-mail: [email protected]
