English Abstract: This working paper describes the theoretical and conceptual frame concerning the theme of work. The term “work” regards a diversity of meanings, as it is a concept that has changed in its definition and in its attribution of value over time. Today's current society has...

Italian Abstract: In Italia con il termine Cassa Integrazione Guadagni (CIG) ci si riferisce genericamente agli strumenti di integrazione salariali in costanza di rapporto, che permettono alle imprese di assorbire gli effetti occupazionali di shock inattesi alla domanda preservando la...

Profit share in Italy has been growing between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, remaining stable at historically high levels since than. After dropping in the first half of the 1970s, owing to an unprecedented rapid rise in wages, profit share started to recover. The rise during the 1980s...