The paper proposes a quantitative assessment of the impact of demand-side factors, i.e. growth, composition and distribution of income, in the determination of changes in the aggregate balance of employment. The level of employment “justified” in an economic system is here derived from the...

The paper aims at identifying the profile of the outsourcing firm as a four-fold unit of analysis: i.e. as an organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing variables are formulated and then tested with respect...

Agenda Monti is the electoral programme of the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti for the next national election, due in 2013 spring. In this paper we discuss a specific issue of this Agenda: Performance Related Pay. We argue that the concept of flexible wage through firm level bargaining is a...

L’accordo sulla produttività del 21 novembre 2012, induce preoccupazione e sconforto per quello che dice e per quello che non dice. Il testo non costituisce un passo avanti nelle relazioni industriali in tema di modello di regolazione del legame tra retribuzione del lavoratore e risultati...

Productivity and wages are stagnant, effective demand is in contraction, growth appears now as an illusion and we have also decline in bargaining. How to restore a "virtuos" path also re-thinking objectives and methods of collective bargaining. Can the proposal of a planned and bargained...

La Legge di Stabilita' 2014-2016 elaborata dal governo italiano e' volta al rispetto dei vincoli previsti dai Trattati europei, e non alla crescita del reddito e dell'occupazione. Cio' nonostante, la Commissione Europea non ha ritenuto di dare "semaforo verde", in quanto il rientro dal debito...