Agenda

The Non-Observed Economy: Measurement and Policy Issues

20 January 2003

9.30-9.45
Welcoming speech

Speaker: Luigi Paganetto (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)

9.45-13.00 - I Session
Measuring the Non-observed Economy

Chairman: Enrico Giovannini, OECD

9.45-10.15 - Why the Non-Observed Economy matters: the importance of comprehensive national accounts estimates
Speaker: Fenella Maitland-Smith, OECD

10.15-10.45 - The OECD Handbook on the Non-Observed Economy: framework and goals
Speaker: Manlio Calzaroni, ISTAT

10.45-11.00 - Coffee break

11.00-11.30 - Eurostat activities toward GDP exhaustiveness in EU Member States
Speakers: Brian Newson and Arturo de la Fuente, Eurostat

11.30-12.00 - Defining and measuring informal employment
Speaker: Ralf Husmann, ILO

12.00-13.00 - Discussant: Franco Peracchi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
General discussion

13.00 – Lunch

14.30-17.30 - II Session
The Measurement of the Non-Observed Economy: Case Studies

Chairman: Luisa Picozzi, ISTAT

14.30-14.50 - Interviene: Vito Tanzi, Sottosegretario di Stato, Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze

14.50-15.10 - The Italian approach to estimating the extent of the Non-Observed Economy: methods and results
Speaker: Claudio Pascarella and Antonella Baldassarini, ISTAT

15.10-15.30 - Measuring the Non-Observed Economy in Netherlands
Speaker: Brugt Kazemier, Statistics Netherlands

15.30-15.50 - Methods used in Polish national accounts to ensure exhaustiveness
Speakers: Bozenna Jakobiak, Central Statistical Office of Poland and Leokadia Szczaluba, Regional Office of Kielce

15.50-16.05 - Coffee break

16.05-16.25 - Queries on the underground labour measurability
Speaker: Luca Meldolesi, University of Naples Ferdinando II

16.25-16.45 - The measurement of the Non-Observed Economy: different approaches, advantages and drawbacks
Speaker: Adriaan Bloem, IMF

16.45-17.45 - Discussant: Guido M. Rey, University of Roma Tre
General discussion

21 January 2003

9.30-13.00 - III Session
The Non-Observed Economy in Developed Countries: Phenomenology and Economic and Social Agents' Behaviour

Chairman: Dott. Giorgio Cigliana, CENSIS

9.30-10.00 - Paradigms and typological changes in the Non-Observed Economy
Speaker: Giuseppe Roma, Censis

10.00-10.30 - State capture and trends of the Non-Observed Economy in relations between state and the market
Speaker: Daniel Kaufmann, World Bank Institute

10.30-10.45 - Coffee break

10.45-11.15 - The role of tax policies
Speaker: Michel James Keen, IMF

11.15-11.45 - The Non-Observed Economy and European employment strategy in view of possible enlargement.
Speaker: Juhani Lonnroth, DG Employment and social affairs, European Commission

11.45-12.15
The Non-Observed Economy and the economic Italian growth
Speaker: Laura Castellucci, CEIS - Tor Vergata

12.15-13.00 - Discussant: Luigi Frey, University La Sapienza
General discussion

13.00 – Lunch

Round Table
The Policy maker's viewpoint and reactions

21 January 2003, 16.00-17.30
Sala del Cenacolo, Camera dei Deputati
Campo Marzio, 42 - Roma

Chairman: Bruno Costi, President of Economics Club

16.00 - Rapporteurs
Luigi Biggeri, Giuseppe De Rita, Luigi Paganetto

Panellists: Luigi Angeletti, Segretario Generale, UIL; On. Renato Brunetta, Parlamento Europeo; Giuseppe Casadio, Segretario Confederale, CGIL; Sen. Franco DeBenedetti, Senato della Repubblica; Guidalberto Guidi, Consigliere Incaricato Relazioni Industriali e Affari Sociali, Confindustria; Savino Pezzotta, Segretario Generale, CISL.

Conclusions: Maurizio Sacconi, Undersecretary of State, Italian Ministry of Welfare