Expansionary Austerity, Expansionary Precariousness and the Jobs Act. In the last years of the crisis, the devaluation policy on labour has exacerbated the negative effects of austerity on domestic demand. Nevertheless, the European Commission, also in the recent countries recommendations, keeps...

The Jobs Act of Matteo Renzi's Italian Government has been announced as urgent structural reform requested by Europe to make the extremely rigid Italian labour market more flexible, in order to contrast the dualism among protected workers and those without protections at all, and to guarantee...