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The considerable increase of non-standard labor contracts, unemployment and inactivity rates raises the question of whether job insecurity and the lack of job opportunities affect physical and mental well-being differently from being employed with an open-ended contract. In this paper we offer...
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Social protection programs are underway to help assist individuals, households, and communities to better manage risk as well as to provide support to the chronically poor. In pre-crisis Indonesia, formal social protection programs hardly existed and most social protection was achieved through...
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In early 1998 the government of Indonesia established several Social Safety Net (SSN) programs, in order to help protect the poor and the newly poor resulting from the economic crisis. This study assesses the impact of these government’s initiatives and the findings indicate that the...
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La curva de Beveridge es utilizada para mostrar la eficiencia de los mercados laborales en su función de ajuste inmediato entre oferta y demanda. Desplazamientos positivos en la curva se atribuyen a la rigidez del mercado laboral, afectando a la capacidad de búsqueda y probabilidad de...
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The paper studies the evolution in the support to firms in China. Using a tailored imitativelearning approach, Chinese policy makers have supported national champions (similarlyto the Japanese experience), while also favouring the emergence of sectoral agglomerations ofsmes (as in the case of...
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The paper describes the economic scenario after the financial crisis focusing on Italian manufacturing sector. In particular, it shows the good results reached by this sector in the last two months in terms of occupation and sales and it provides some predictions for the next future. Then it...
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The article investigates the current global crisis and provides some insights on possible future scenarios for the Italian industry. From recent Reports on the national production system, developed by Prometeia with Intesa-San Paolo and the Bank of Italy, it emerges a complex framework in which...
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The paper focuses on the introduction of Euro as one of the most relevant change in theinstitutional framework Italian firms have to face. The introduction of a common currency isbased on a theoretical background that would not be taken for granted. The paper shows how current approaches to...
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The crisis that the world is currently facing has induced many governments to promote policies in support of their industries. Policy makers - both in industrialised and new emerging countries - justify the promotion of a set of practices and measure such as nationalisation, incentives to firms,...
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The paper aims to provide some remarks about the Italian economic scenario after the current economic crisis. At first, the Author relates and comments some data and information recently provided by the General Confederation of Italian Industries and other public institutions and research...
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