Organized by:
Network of Economists on the Welfare State
Specific Targeted Research Project Sixth Framework programme - Priority 7
September 19-20, 2008
Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics
Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, Rome.
Sala del Consiglio – 2º floor “Ala Presidenza”
Programme
Friday, September 19, 2008
Global and European inequalities
9.30 Opening of the workshop
Marcello Gorgoni, Director, Department of Public Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Maurizio Franzini, Director CRISS
Chair: M. Gorgoni (Sapienza University of Rome)
9.45. Keynote Speaker: Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Globalization, Growth, and Distribution: Framing the Questions
10.45 Coffee break
11.00 Inequality across and within countries
Massimo Giannini, University of Rome, Tor Vergata
Discussant: Massimo Baldini, University of Modena
Discussant: Enrico Saltari, Sapienza University of Rome
12.00 Decomposing inequality
Francesco Farina, University of Siena
Discussant: Carlo Dell'Aringa, University of Milan "Cattolica"
Discussant: Paolo Piacentini, Sapienza University of Rome
13.00 Lunch
Chair: D.M. Nuti (Sapienza University of Rome)
14.15 The effects on inequality of innovation, trade and labour market
Mario Pianta, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"
Discussant: Luciano Marcello Milone, Sapienza University of Rome
Discussant: Annamaria Simonazzi , Sapienza University of Rome
15.15 Welfare state, redistribution and political economy
Debora Di Gioacchino, Sapienza University of Rome
Discussant: Giuseppe Pisauro, Sapienza University of Rome
Discussant: Massimo D'Antoni, University of Siena
16.15 Persistence of inequality
Maurizio Franzini, Sapienza University of Rome
Discussant: Antonio Schizzerotto, University of Trento
Discussant: Patrizio Piraino, Statistics Canada
17.15 Coffee break
17.30 Roundtable discussion with opinion makers
Disuguaglianze: realtà, percezioni, ideologie
Chair: Elena Granaglia (Scuola Superiore Economia e Finanza)
Invited speakers: Orazio Carabini (Il Sole 24 Ore), Roberta Carlini (L'Espresso), Luca Cifoni (Messaggero), Massimo Mucchetti (Corriere della Sera), Roberto Petrini (Repubblica)
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Saturday, September 20
Inequality across the Atlantic
Chair: M. Franzini (Sapienza University of Rome)
9.30 American Myths: Holes in the American Model since 1970s
Jeff Madrick, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
10.15 The transmission of inequality across the generations: immigrants to Canada and their children
Miles Corak, University of Ottawa
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Rising tides, redistribution and the material well-being of the poor
Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona
12.15 Roundtable Discussion
Inequalities in the West and in the World: origins and policies.
Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University), Grzegorz W. Kolodko (TIGER - Transformation Integration and Globalization Economic Research), Josè Molero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Domenico Mario Nuti (Sapienza University of Rome), Emilio Reyneri (University of Milan "Bicocca"), Vincenzo Visco (Sapienza University of Rome)