The objective of this paper is to show that the current global economic crisis in which also Italy fell in 2008 represents indeed for the Italian economy just the last step of a much longer declining path which started in the nineties or to be more precise in 1992-93. In particular, I argue, the...

1. Introduzione 2. Flessibilità e rigidità nel mercato del lavoro europeo 3. Lavoro dipendente e lavoro autonomo in Italia e nei paesi OECD 4. Il lavoro in somministrazione come pietra miliare della flessibilità italiana 5. Caratteristiche, diffusione ed evoluzione del lavoro in...

The objective of this paper is to explore why some countries perform better than others in managing the current economic crisis, which started in 2007 in the US financial sector. I will elaborate on this question using the Crisis Management Index, taking into consideration GDP and labour market...

The objective of this paper is to show that the current global economic crisis, in which also Italy fell in 2008, represents just the last step of a long declining path for the Italian economy which began in the nineties, or to be more precise in 1992and 1993. In particular, I argue the reasons...

This study analyses the effect of a flexible labour contract, such as the Labour Supply Contract - LSC (known in Italy as "Contratto di Somministrazione"), on employment and labour productivity. Its features (income support if a worker is temporarily without a job mission and training for...

The objective of this paper is to articulate how the 2007--09 economic crisis is rooted in the uneven income distribution and inequality caused by the current finance-led model of growth. The process of financialisation that took place in the 1980s in the USA and then in the European Union was...

With the benefit of more than twenty years of hindsight, we can begin to draw conclusions about the varieties of economic transition adopted in countries under Soviet influence after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This economist draws fascinating conclusions, the most important of which is that...