The aim of this paper is evaluating the impact of training on the employability of young long-term unemployed (18-24) within the EU. The analysis focuses on three countries representing different educational and training systems: Spain and Sweden are examples of a rigid and of a flexible...

In the last decades, and particularly in the Nineties, the European Economy has been widely characterised by regional disparities. This paper aims to evaluate if different regional economic structures, such as productive mix and labour market composition, contribute to this disarities and to...

Il presente lavoro analizza le determinanti dell'attività gratuita per un'associazione di volontariato, un'associazione non di volontariato, un partito politico ed un sindacato, usando dati ufficiali dell'Indagine Multiscopo sulle Famiglie, Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana, dell'Istituto Nazionale...

An important issue in the design of sustainable Long Term Care policies is the relative social cost of community or home based care versus institutional care. Here we undertake this cost comparison making use of the findings from the GALCA surveys on Long Term Care in Denmark, Ireland and Italy...

The paper analyses the labour market in a framework of New Keynesian Economics (NKE). The aim of the NKE is to provide micro foundations to the main result of the Keynesian model, that is the rigidity of prices and wages as well as the presence of non market clearing equilibria. In the first...

This paper investigates an open economy macrodynamic model on Harrodian lines. The analysis starts with a reconsideration of the post-Keynesian ThirlwallâÂÂs approach to growth in open economy. We cast doubt on the Thirlwall idea aimed at rendering the concept of HarrodâÂÂs foreign trade...

Il paper si colloca nell'attuale dibattito politico-istituzionale in Europa sugli incentivi allo sviluppo locale e sulla promozione di imprese innovative dal basso. Il paper, tra le diverse politiche, si focalizza sul progetto di riforma del welfare basato sul decentramento, inteso come...

Since the pioneering contributions of Balassa (1966) and Grubel and Lloyd (1975) revealed a remarkable incidence of simultaneous exports and imports within industries (intra-industry trade) in the foreign trade structure of developed countries, a large body of academic work has expanded...

The labour market in Italy is characterised by the following structurally specific features: 1) Regional differentials. In 1996 the unemployment rate was between 7% and 10% in Central and Northern regions, while it was over 21% in the South where, moreover, the participation rate was also low,...

The aim of the paper is to endorse the principle, recurrent in non-profit literature, that the third sector is an institution that supports the development process of economic systems. The third sector is considered as an institution that –favors, transmits and cements– the role of social...