The changing economic significance of consumer durables resulting from the evolution of productive systems

摘要

In the present paper we are aiming to establish how the price of the most important durable goods, in Italy as well as in other industrialised countries, has changed, over time, in relation to the per-capita average income, in order to identify trends and causes. The observed trends have been reconfirmed through the elaboration of the ratio between price of the durable and per-capita average wage. Furthermore, the work aims to see how the incidence of the main economic activities has varied over time with reference to value-added and the number of people involved.