The aim of the present paper is to investigate the linkage between education and working hours, assumed to be positive as suggested by econometric evidence (Coleman and Pencavel (1993), Costa (1998) and Card (1999)), by using a model à la Acemoglu (1994, 1996) with a labour market characterised...

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce the contributions in this special issue on “Unemployment, innovation and R&D”, and provide a brief outline of the international conference organised by the Applied Econometrics Association on “Policies against Unemployment”....

<i> Orario di lavoro e salari di efficienza in un modello di sviluppo dualistico </i> (di Antonio Garofalo, Concetto Paolo Vinci) - ABSTRACT: The objective of the present paper is that of explaining some dynamic behaviour of the Ital-ian economy considered as a dualistic system, by using a theoretical...

The aim of this paper is to measure the effect on employment, and other key economic variables, of worksharing policies, minimum wage variations and some other measures of flexibility in a special framework, based on Holden (1988) and Moene (1988), where two different levels of negotiations for...