The chapter first introduces Tarantelli’s thought on the role of labour economics and social pacts. The implementation of his proposals for a social pact in Italy is then discussed and compared to similar experiences in Europe. Attention is finally devoted to developing a theory of social...

The chapter presents a model, where the union is interested in the level of wages, employment and the level of public expenditure. Social pacts are shown not only to lead to a superior macroeconomic performance, but to be also acceptable by unions. The key to their acceptability lies in the...

Negli ultimi decenni Roma, come molte altre città nel panorama internazionale, ha affrontato i problemi della riconversione economica e della riarticolazione istituzionale allo scopo di trovare un posizionamento di rilievo nella gerarchia urbana globale. Il modello di sviluppo perseguito ha...

Il turismo sembra vivere un rapporto nuovo con le città, in particolari di grandi dimensioni. Ormai quotidianamente si legge del lancio di iniziative turistiche in forma di piccoli e grandi eventi; della realizzazione di icone artistiche e architettoniche, di nuove funzioni che, più o meno...

It is widespread opinion that the concept of poverty, as well as measures of the extent of poverty at national or local level, cannot be entirely linked to income and assets but because of its multidimensionality necessarily involves a variety of individual/household characteristics (age,...

Economic and demographic factors are key determinants of health status in old age. Although,in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the evaluation of the relationships between these factors and individual health status in Italy, limited attention has been devoted to the link...

This article derives optimal fiscal rules within a stochastic model of Keynesian type in the context of Poole (1970) analysis. By using optimal control theory and applying the Hamilton-Jacoby Bellman equation, we extend the original Poole results concerning the output stabilization properties of...

A growing body of research is exploring the role of community-based initiatives (CBIs) in the promotion of sustainable regional transitions. While existing research and policies acknowledge the relevant contribution of community activism in providing a soft, self-governed and bottom-up path...