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How do Italians allocate their lost market-work hours during the recent economic recession? Is household production increasing its relevance as a market-substitute in times of economic hardship? Is the economic crisis affecting negatively gender equality and favouring a return of backward-looking gender contracts? This paper stems on Italian time use micro-data for years 2002/3, 2008/9 and 2013/4 to describe changes occurred in the use of time during the financial crisis with a life-course and a gender perspective.

Basic Income by van Parijs and Vanderborght (2017) is the most advanced take on the debate on a universal and unconditional basic income: even though it does not encompass a comprehensive review of the literature, it is set to become the reference reading for anyone interested to learn about this debate. Some arguments implicitly rely on neoclassical assumptions at the micro level and at the macro level.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms through which social inequality is produced and reproduced, beginning from an examination of the close interrelationship between the macro level of policy and institutional action and the micro level of activity by a variety of actors.

In contrast to the advancement of knowledge on the archaeological record, the analysis of the social organisation of Copper Age Italian communities has scarcely developed. This paper seeks to examine in detail some aspects considered of value in both proposing and discussing avenues of interpretation for this subject. In particular, the demography of Copper Age communities of central-southern Italy, their patterns of social self-representation through funerary costumes, the social role of warriors and warfare are discussed.

The emergence of the first forms of socio - economic inequality is one of the aspects to which Marcella Frangipane
has most contributed. In this paper the concepts of horizontal egalitarian or vertical egalitarian systems used for the Neolithic
and Chalcolithic Mesopotamian societies are compared with the social organization of the Bronze Age Terramare
culture, (Po valley - Italy). The result of the comparison shows convergences with the vertical egalitarian system model,
but also significant differences.

This discussion paper provides an updated analysis of gendered economic inequality in high- and middle-income countries. A review of the literature demonstrates that such an analysis needs to explicitly recognize that gender, poverty, and (economic) inequality are intrinsically linked. Specifically, the paper addresses two sets of questions. First, how do intra-family resource allocation and distribution patterns both reflect and shape gender inequalities in power and well-being, and what factors—including policy-related ones—can mitigate these inequalities?

This paper addresses the problem of ranking growth episodes from a microeconomic perspective.
While most of the existing criteria, framed in the pro-poor growth tradition, are either based on anonymous
individuals or are used to identify them on the basis of their status in the initial period, this
paper proposes new criteria to evaluate growth, which are robust to the choice of the reference period
used to identify individuals. Suitable dominance conditions that can be used to rank alternative growth

This report provides comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for tertiary education for about 30 countries in Europe, exploiting the two EU-SILC waves for which information on family background is available (2005 and 2011). It exploits the two point-in-time observations available for most of the countries and analyzes the relationship between many institutional dimensions and inequality of opportunity in tertiary education.