I think it's worth spending a few words on the element that triggered the national debate on wage cages or a study of the Bank of Italy on price differentials between geographical areas, today the Corriere della Sera reported in a nutshell on pages 2 and 3.
premise that they are not prejudiced contrary to any measure to alleviate the crisis, then even the concept of territorial differentiation of wages, if only I understood exactly what it is, what is the basis, what are the premises and the tax consequences, and so forth.
The point here is that you are not discussing nothing. The cages wages (not those of 1954, but those of today) have a bill? A bill? Or just a rumor summer? We know that the proposal comes from the environments of the League and that is the favor of Silvio Berlusconi, but for now we have not seen anything on paper, then we consider that it is anything that we are discussing. Indeed, not quite nothing.
We discuss a 43-page study, the number of 49 issues of Economy and Finance, signed by Louis Cannari Iuzzolino and John, found in its entirety on the website of the Bank of Italy, and exactly at this address: http
: / / www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/econo/quest_ecofin_2/QF_49
In a nutshell, says the Corriere della Sera, the study quantifies the difference in prices between the North and South in the order of 16.5%. But the study also quantifies the difference in wages between North and South in the order of 16%, and this should close the question already.
Now, while Henry Marro Corriere focuses on the issue of contract, and no additional public and private, in the four areas considered by the study, it seems to me important to understand some issues that seem to me just described. The categories considered by the QF 49 cover food, home appliances, housing costs, costs of other goods and services. We carry (ie copy and paste) the main the study's conclusions on page 16.
"1) if we assume that the prices of foodstuffs, clothing and furniture -
which can be attributed about a third of the consumption expenditure of households - are the only ones
include differences in the area, the cost of life in the South is lower by about 3 percent from North Central;
2) the cost of rents (actual and imputed) in the South is approximately 60 percent of
the North, the same quality characteristics of properties, as measured
survey on household budgets conducted by the Bank of Italy. Attributing the rent the weight of expenditure on housing is that household consumption survey carried out by Istat and assuming that the prices of goods and services other than rent and food, clothing and furniture do not show regional differences, we arrive at a total cost of living index for the regions of the South is 15 percent lower than those of the Centre and North. In other words, the differences observed in the prices of a set of products that represent just under 60 percent of household spending imply a difference in cost of living by about 15 percent between North and South;
(warning - the study in another section, makes it clear that the impact of voice 'vacation' is very small, since 70% of Italians live in homes owned)
3) the cost of fuel and energy is slightly higher than in the South
Centre North (2.2 percent), while that of services is rather less than 15 percent.
These categories of expenditure account for 5 and 38 percent of the total expenditure of households. Including these components in the calculation of the cost of living comes to an estimate of the gap between the North and the South Centre by 20 per cent, if we assume that the prices of the services detected by MiSE are representative only some components of spending on services (health, repairs, and other goods and services, items that account for 16 percent of spending) and that for the other products there are regional differences (the set of items for which assumes uniformity of price in the territory in this case is equal to 22 percent of spending), the overall cost of living index stood at 89.3 in the South and the North Central 107.8; in the southern regions the price level is 17 percent less than the Centre and North. Incorporating the highest burden in the South found for the insurance premiums of vehicles that value drops to 16.5 percent. This estimate is preferable methodology because it allows for direct measurements of the rents and prices of services and make adjustments for product quality, also, as the proportion of expenditure on goods for which it is assumed that there are regional differences is greater than that used for products for which the central Istat conduct a survey, in this experiment the risk of an overestimation of the gap between South and North Central is modest. "
Here's how the study arrives at conclusions which also appear in the Corriere. Now, I do not think, but correct me if I'm wrong, that the category of 'other goods and services' is included, for example telephony, the cost of communications, internet, digital terrestrial, satellite TV and broadcasting fees, which are known to be one-off costs on a national basis and do not even know what the impact of all overhead costs for families (I do not think so marginal). And 'maybe that 22% referred to in paragraph 3?
I do not know if in the 'appliances' are included cars and their maintenance (gasoline, diesel, etc.) whose prices should be the same on a national basis. I rather suspect that in large showrooms in the North there is a different cost to buy than in the south of the volume of business, for ease of transport. It 's my inference, I may be wrong, look confirmations or denials. If petrol and diesel are part of other goods and services, or energy, then the study confirms that spending is higher in the South.
One thing is clear. 16.5% of that difference takes into account the difference in rents (15%), but covers only 30% of Italian families, and I do not think it was weighted. Even here I may be wrong, my knowledge of economics and statistics are limited, I hope that people smarter than they are able to read the study with greater competence.
Certainly if we look at the nice chart explaining the Courier-discover that oh my God - a haircut for men in the south coast of the South to 35.8% in less than north! A Styling costs 23.7% less in the South! I guess that's a national disgrace that should be canceled immediately.
Now this is what people are talking about in Italy. Would be good if each of you to read and double check, without ideology and without unnecessary partisan, what really matters in the field.
My impression is the usual: too much ado about nothing.
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