Nell’ultimo ventennio le economie europee hanno visto cambiare il contesto in cui sono immerse: alla pressione proveniente dalle grandi economie emergenti si è aggiunta quella dovuta alla cancellazione di meccanismi di isolamento nominale dai competitor interni all’Unione. Il CLUP si è...

In a path-breaking but largely overlooked study, published in a festchrift thirty years ago (1975), Herman Van der Wee provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from 1400 to 1700. To do so, he constructed a composite...

In an analysis of the formation of unions within a single firm, this paper addresses conditions under which encompassing unions form. It is shown that a production function satisfying decreasing marginal productivity leads to the formation of encompassing unions. This result holds for different...

In an analysis of the formation of unions within a single firm, this paper addresses conditions under which encompassing unions form. It is shown that a production function satisfying decreasing marginal productivity leads to the formation of encompassing unions. This result holds for different...

Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...

La riduzione della quota del lavoro sul prodotto, che ha caratterizzato l’andamento delle economie europee negli anni ’90, `e stata vista soprattutto come una conseguenza di variazioni nella tecnologia e nella dotazione di capitale per occupato. In questo lavoro, valutiamo il ruolo che la...

Az ÉT (ma az OMT és a Gazdasági Tanács) résztvevői régóta érdekeltek az adó- és a járulékrendszer olyan átfogó átalakításában, amely az eddigieknél, illetve a mainál kedvezőbb feltételeket teremtene a vállalkozások számára, csökkentené működési költségeiket, s...

Based on Becker’s theoretical model, the present paper estimates econometrically the determinants of the crime rate in Argentina for the 1990-1999 period. Like previous empirical applications for Argentina, a significant deterrence effect was found. However unlike them we find a strong...

Evolution of the income structure divided into five components in 79 subjects of RF during the years 1990-2007is studied in the paper. The coefficients of Fond, Gini and Concentration for total income per capita and for each of its five components are estimated. Comparative analysis of these...