Many economic reforms in developing economies are, in fact, price deregulation in the product markets and trade liberalisation, concerning whether the growth of exports accelerates. This paper, however, attempts to offer a new flavour in the policy reforms using fixed price model to study the...

In this paper we first review the (potential and actual) role of the Universities for the local economies in which they operate, especially considering the implications deriving from the degree of skill mismatch (over-education) in a local labour market. Then, in the second part of the paper, we...

The aim of the paper is to produce a both theoretical and empirical analysis on the existence and nature of a causal link between industrial relations systems and national employment performances, considering the Italian case in a comparative perspective. In Section 1 we first discuss the recent...