179 research outputs found
Intragenerational redistribution in a funded pension system*
No full textIn a general equilibrium framework, this paper studies the properties, in terms of labour market distortions and capital accumulation, of three social security systems: a pay-as-yougo notional defined contribution (PAYG NDC), a fully funded (FF), and a novel modified FF (MFF) system, which includes an intragenerational redistributive component to guarantee minimum living standards to future low-income retirees. We show that while PAYG NDC depresses labour supply and physical capital accumulation, FF is neutral on both dimensions. Conversely, MFF slightly increases physical capital accumulation, without significantly reducing labour supply incentives. Moreover, it reduces the burden of future intergenerational redistribution, and increases social welfare
Recensione a G. Comandè, Medical Law in Italy,Wolters Kluwer, 2014
No full textThe review analyses G. Comandè's work Medical Law in Italy focusing on the main issues analysed by the Author under a criminal law perspectiv
Müller Deutschland 1979-1989. L'istituzione Heiner Müller nella Repubblica Federale Tedesca attraverso l'esempio di Berlino Ovest
No full textObject of this essay is role of the GDR author and dramatist Heiner Müller in West Berlin between 1979 and 1989, contextualizing him in the specific and peculiar artistic and intellectual scenario of the so called "two hearted city"
Los apuntes autobiográficos de un morisco expulsado: algunas reflexiones sobre el prólogo del Ms. S2 de la Colección Gayangos de la Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid
No full textThis paper aims to study some details, concerning style and themes, that the anonymous Moorish author determined to provide in the prologue of the manuscript S2 of the Gayangos Collection of the Library of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid [ff. 2r-16v]. Particularly, the attention is focused on the autobiographical notes inserted in the prologue, important narrative sequences in which the author tells the tough conditions suffered as a crypto-Muslim in Seventeenth-century Spain.El presente trabajo procura realizar una observación sobre algunos detalles estilísticos y temáticos que el autor morisco anónimo determina brindar en la sección del prólogo del manuscrito S2 perteneciente a la Colección Gayangos de la Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid [ff. 2r-16v]. De manera particular, la atención se focaliza en los apuntes autobiográficos intercalados en el mismo prefacio, importantes secuencias narrativas en las que el autor relata la durísima condición que sufrió como criptomusulmán en la España del siglo XVII
Per un teatro che crede nella storia. Pier Paolo Pasolini nell'opera di Heiner Müller
No full textAim of this essay is to analyse the role of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the work and poetics of the GDR-author Heiner Müller. After an analysis of the reception of Pasolini’s works and persona in Germany and in the specific context of the GDR, the current work focuses on the influence of PPP in Müller’s approach to language, identity and history
The cobordism ring: the perspective of characteristic classes
No full textThis written work, by Benedetta Andina, discusses ``The cobordism ring: the prospective of characteristic classes''. After providing sufficient preliminaries to make this thesis accessible to any graduate student, it clearly highlights how both the oriented and unoriented cobordism rings can be studied using characteristic classes, which are usually easily computable. To demonstrate this relationship in the unoriented case (as presented by Pontrjagin and Thom), the author unveils an explicit structure of the unoriented cobordism ring. This structure provides a clear classification of smooth closed manifolds
Book review: Lobbying in the European Union: interest groups, lobbying coalitions, and policy change
No full text"Lobbying in the European Union: Interest Groups, Lobbying Coalitions, and Policy Change." Heike Klüver. Oxford University Press. February 2013. --- Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining interest group influence. This book aims to shed light on the impact of interest groups on European policy-making, with author Heike Klüver developing a comprehensive theoretical model for understanding lobbying success. Reviewed by Benedetta Voltolini
Nota a Cass. pen., sez. IV, n. 11136, 4 febbraio 2015
No full textThe Italian Supreme Court Judgment commented by the Author dealt with a case, where the director of a nursing home had been convicted of manslaughter. More specifically, the director was accused of having failed to put in place a proper alarm system linked to the doors' opening, which would have allegedly been able to prevent one of the old guests to access the stairs and to fall down, dying. The comment provides the reader with the relevant references to scholars' opinions and case law, focusing on causation in omission and on issues arising when a legal duty to prevent a specific event lies on more than one person
Analysis of pension systems with special focus on the case of public sector employees in Italy
No full textThis work, after presenting the main features of modern social security systems, focuses on some crucial issues concerning the Italian case. In particular the problem related to the existence of pension funds for public sector employees is addressed. Such an issue is originated by the virtuality of the management of the severance pay (TFR) since new potential debt might be created to meet the promises to future cohorts of pensioners. More precisely such a problem is tied to the fact that the cost for the State related to the TFR can become higher when public sector employees decide to join the complementary social security. The rates of return on pension funds applied to the TFR during the accumulation phase in fact are generally higher than the rate of revaluation of the TFR. Once identified these problems, we carry out some simulations in order to show the size of the extra cost that the State incurs to pay the TFR to civil servants enrolled in pension funds
«Que es gente que come arroz, / pasas, higos y alcuzcuz» : la construcción de la imagen esterotipada del morisco en nueve comedias de Lope de Vega
No full textNueve son las comedias de Lope de Vega en las que se puede considerar el morisco como figura activa de los enredos dramáticos. En ellas, el Fénix presenta al público un personaje que corresponde básicamente a una imagen deformada del sujeto real: el autor parece valerse, efectivamente, de los rasgos del distorsionado «monigote» concebido por algunos estratos del ambiente político-social de la época para ajustarlos a su propia lógica teatral y proporcionar una figura teatral en clave esencialmente cómica. Lope realizaría su propósito dramático a través del empleo de cuatro parámetros: la elección del nombre de origen árabe, el proceso de conversión al cristianismo, las referencias al consumo de vino y tocino y el uso de la jerga morisca. El presente trabajo se centra, por tanto, en la observación de los atributos estereotipados que constituyen la columna vertebral de cada figura examinada, y reflexiona asimismo acerca del significado del procedimiento cómico que el autor maneja sutilmente en todas las obras del corpus analizado.Nine are the plays by Lope de Vega in which the Moorish figure can be considered as an active dramatic character. In them, the Fénix presents to the audience a character which is basically a distorted image of the real social subject: the author seems to rely on the features of a disfigured «puppet», conceived by some levels of the socio-political environment of the time, in order to adjust the character to his own theatrical logic and present it from a comical perspective. Lope carries out his dramatic purpose through the use of four parameters: the choice of Arabic names, the process of conversion to Christianity, the references to drinking wine and eating pork and, finally, the use of the Moorish jargon. This paper focuses therefore on the observation of the stereotyped attributes that constitute the backbone of each of those figures, and reflects also about the meaning of the comical procedure that Lope manages in all the works of the analysed corpus
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