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Italian Studies on Quality of Life

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 77)

Editors: Bianco, Adele; Conigliaro, Paola; Gnaldi, Michela

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-06022-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-06021-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 15, 2019

1 - 10 of 26 Chapters

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Chapter 1Italian Studies on Quality of Life: An Interdisciplinary Overview

Bianco, Adele; Conigliaro, Paola; Gnaldi, Michela

Pages: 1 –7

[The volume collects a selection of the papers presented at the conferences of the Italian Association for Quality of Life Studies (AIQUAV), held in Florence in 2015 and 2016. The aim is to offer an overview of the ways the Italian school of quality of life studies addresses various topics both...
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Quantification of Partially Ordered Data and the Evaluation of Financial Literacy

Fattore, Marco; Zenga, Mariangela

Pages: 11 –26

[In this paper, we address the problem of the quantification of partially ordered data arising from multi-indicator systems of binary attributes and develop a procedure for the evaluation of Financial Literacy, on a real dataset pertaining to Italy. The procedure is based on the concept of...
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Using a Composite Index to Measure Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities

Mazziotta, Matteo; Pallara, Alessandro; Solipaca, Alessandro

Pages: 27 –45

[Measuring disability is a very challenging task, because of its complexity and multidimensionality. Indeed, data from different statistical sources may vary both for the aspects of disability surveyed and for the way they identify a person as belonging to the population with disability. We...
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Measurement of Well-being in Territories: An Application for Italian Provinces

Costa, Roberto; Declich, Carlo; Marchesich, Elena; Osti, Susi

Pages: 47 –69

[This contribution intends to present a comparison between well-being levels of Italian Provinces, thanks to the synthesis of the 2014 territorial well-being indicators “BES delle Province” (ISTAT-CUSPI). The Mazziotta-Pareto Index (MPI) was used, pursuant to the methodology ISTAT has been using...
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Corruption Indicators and Prevention Policies

Carloni, Enrico

Pages: 71 –79

[In the panorama of Italian corruption prevention policies, the importance of relying on corruption indicators is central, in particular for the development of prevention plans, introduced by the Italian law, by each authority. The central issue is not as much quantifying the amount of...
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Corruption Prevention: First Evidences from the 2015 RPC Survey for Italian Municipalities

Gnaldi, Michela; Sarto, Simone Del

Pages: 81 –95

[Corruption prevention is noticeably interwoven with the social integrity and overall quality of life of a Country. The Italian “anti-corruption law” of 2012 introduces a new figure, the prevention-of-corruption supervisor, who yearly reports, through a pre-specified questionnaire (named the RPC...
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Transparency and Socio-political Environment in Italy

Galli, Emma; Rizzo, Ilde; Scaglioni, Carla

Pages: 97 –109

[Transparency of public administration may contribute to the quality of citizens’ life and affect trust in government because of its informative value and monitoring function. Notwithstanding the legislative and administrative efforts undertaken at every level of public administration in Italy,...
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The Quality of Life in the Historic Centre of Naples: the use of PLS-PM Models to measure the Well-Being of the Citizens of Naples

Cataldo, Rosanna; Corbisiero, Fabio; Delle Cave, Luigi; Grassia, Maria Gabriella; Marino, Marina; Zavarrone, Emma

Pages: 111 –125

[How do the citizens of the historic centre of a city perceive the quality of their living conditions? The objective of this research has been to identify a series of indicators focused on the crucial aspects that, directly or indirectly, influence and determine the level of well-being of...
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The Incidence of Sin Taxes: Evidence from Italy

di Bella, Enrico; Gandullia, Luca; Leporatti, Lucia; Montefiori, Marcello

Pages: 127 –143

[The term “sin goods” is used to identify goods or services whose consumption can be considered self-destructive for individuals and source of negative externalities for the entire society. The potentially harmful nature of sin goods makes these categories of products subject to special fiscal...
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With Whom Do We Compare Our Income? The Effect of Gendered Income Comparisons on Subjective Well-Being

Ravazzini, Laura; Piekałkiewicz, Marcin

Pages: 145 –161

[Income comparisons are often performed through the construction of reference groups based on sociodemographic characteristics. Gender is usually included in these characteristics only when the number of cases is large. However, it has not been demonstrated empirically that people compare their...

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