Questo lavoro ha lo scopo di offrire una lettura multidisciplinare del decreto legislativo 8 giugno 2001 n.231, che, come e' noto, ha introdotto il regime della responsabilita' amministrativa per la persona giuridica-impresa in caso di commissione di reati. Si provera' ad esaminare le...

The main of this paper is to set up a model able to embody some peculiarity of the Italian unionised labour market with regard to employment determination. The impact of unions on employment is measured both through direct and indirect effects via wages. Moreover, the theoretical framework used...

In a previous paper (O'Higgins, 1994) I looked at the effects that participation on the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) in Britain had on young people's chances of finding work. The discussions of YTS in that paper suggest that wages might be a second suitable indicator of the effectiveness of YTS....

In this paper we develop an empirical two-stage model of competition for the banking industry that incorporates the choice of capacity in the form of new branches. It is estimated using data on Italian banks for the years 1995-2009. The results show that the conduct of banks is significantly...

The implications of individual heterogeneity for the evolution of wealth distribution are studied in a standard model of occupational choice with financial market imperfections and local non convexities in education investment technology. We consider heterogeneity in the cost of educational...

The phenomenon of tourism, due to the variables involved and their instability, is a highly complex and dynamic sector. Faced with an increasingly competitive market, characterized by political, economic and social megatrends which affect local performance, the role of the setting becomes...

This paper studies the distributive impact of institutional change in developing countries. In such economies, economic institutions, such as property rights systems, may act to preserve the interests of an influential minority, but this depends crucially on the level of political equality. For...

The starting point in this paper is based on the strand of the literature on corporatist systems stressing the role of co-operation and consensus in wage bargaining in order to reach better economic performances. In order to model a co-operative regime in the classical framework in which the...

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...

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...