Social Exclusion

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • Giuliana Parodi, Dario Sciulli

   Pages 1-13

3. The Structural and Long Term Causes of Social Exclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Health, Lifestyle and Growth

      • Gianluigi Coppola

      Pages 17-34

   3. A Comparative Analysis of Literacy Rate in Contributing to Social Exclusion Insights

      • Edgardo Bucciarelli, Carmen Pagliari, Fabrizio Muratore, Iacopo Odoardi

      Pages 35-66

   4. Education and Socioeconomic Mobility in Post-Communist Countries

      • Alina Veraschagina

      Pages 67-91

   5. Analysing Industrial Accidents in European Countries Using Data Envelopment Analysis

      • Eugenia Nissi, Agnese Rapposelli

      Pages 93-101

4. Groups Structurally Vulnerable to Social Exclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Social Exclusion and Offending

      • Roger Bowles

      Pages 105-125

   3. Disability and Social Exclusion

      • Peter J. Sloane, Melanie K. Jones

      Pages 127-148

   4. Civilian Disability Pensions as an Antipoverty Policy Instrument? A Spatial Analysis of Italian Provinces, 2003–2005

      • Massimiliano Agovino, Giuliana Parodi

      Pages 149-167

5. Economic Crisis, Labour Markets and Social Exclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Measuring the Long Wave. Unemployment, Discouragement and Semi-Employment in Italy, During and After the Crisis

      • Leonello Tronti, Riccardo Gatto

      Pages 171-198

   3. Poverty and Unemployment: The Cases of Italy and Spain

      • Tindara Addabbo, Rosa García-Fernández, Carmen Llorca-Rodríguez, Anna Maccagnan

      Pages 199-219

   4. Labour Market Transitions During the Financial Crisis in Italy

      • Marco Lilla, Stefano Staffolani

      Pages 221-237

   5. Labour-Market Dynamics and Unemployment: New Scenarios in the Italian Economy

      • Carlo Lucarelli, Chiara Mussida

      Pages 239-264

The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of social exclusion, from the structural groups, like disabled people and formerly convicted people, to other groups, like the young, unemployed, low skilled workers and immigrants, in terms of income, poverty, health, unemployment, transition between occupational statuses, participation, leading to a widening of socio-economic duality. It has also been stressed the relevance of definitions of socio-economic outcomes for the evaluation of the crisis, and their consequences to define interventions to fight socio-economic effects of the economic downturn. The adequacy of welfare policies to cope with social exclusion, especially during a crisis, has been called into question.

• Disadvantaged groups
• Economic crisis
• Labour market
• Poverty
• Social exclusion

• di Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi, Università "G. d'Annunzio", Pescara, Italy

  Giuliana Parodi, Dario Sciulli

Giuliana Parodi (Ph.D. York 1985) is professor of economic policy at the Faculty of Managerial Sciences, Università d’Annunzio, Pescara Chieti, Italy. Her research interests include the economics of disability, labour economics and the economics of e-learning.  She was local coordinator of the WEB-ECON project, cofinanced by the European Commission, coordinated by the University of Trier, Germany, 2000-2002. She has co-organized several Conferences on the Economics of Disability. She has acted as referee for Applied Economics. She is a member of AIEL (Associazione Italiana degli Economisti del Lavoro).

Sciulli Dario (Ph.D. Università di Roma Tor Vergata 2006) is assistant professor of economic policy at the Faculty of Managerial Sciences, Università d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Visiting positions at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid, University of York and VU University Amsterdam. His research interests include labour economics (unemployment, wage discrimination, labour market of the disadvantaged groups, school-to-work transitions), early life events and later outcomes, economics of disability and policy evaluation. He is a member of the executive committee (2010-2013) of AIEL (Associazione Italiana degli Economisti del Lavoro)

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