The purpose of this analysis is to test the hypothesis which growth in workers’ competency level is affected by educational, training and workplace features. We focused above all on the corporate e-learning activities and labour productivity, in order to identify differences between European...

The traditional analysis of unemployment in relation to real output dynamics is based on some empirical evidences deducted from Okun's studies. In particular the so called Okun's Law is expressed in a linear mathematical formulation, which cannot explain the fluctuation of the variables...

In this paper Okun'(tm)s law is tested for six European selected countries in order to compare the responsiveness of unemployment to economic growth over the period 1981-2010. In the first section there is a survey of scientific works that have observed the empirical relationship between growth...

The aim of this study is to analyze the data on both GDP per capita and HDI related to the member States of European Union for the period from 1990 to 2010 in order to verify if these data are more related to the macro-region to which each State belongs than to European area. In particular, this...

The granting of credit, whose excessive diffusion was one of the causes of the economic and financial crisis of 2007, has suffered profound changes during the following period of economic recession. The granting of credit to households and businesses has been strongly influenced by the effects...

It is ten years after Lisbon and in the year dedicated to poverty alleviation that this paper is written in order to investigate the implications of the decisions regarding poverty reduction taken by the EU. We present a simple comparison of the "risks of poverty" in European countries in 2000...

A large part of the economic literature is unanimous in believing technological progress and openness to foreign trade are key variables to trigger the processes of stable and persistent economic growth. An in-depth analysis of these factors, thus, becomes necessary both to meet the challenges...