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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
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