This paper examines the main issues related to the labor market in Italy and indicates some possible solutions that do not focus exclusively on the flexibility of the labor market, but rather on the overall problem and the complexity of employment, with its economic dimension, but also social....

The economic development has become crucial in the debate among economists and, more generally, of all those who deal with today's problems of the economies of various countries, characterized by the globalization of markets, where employment and the related matters concerning the labor market...

The present contribution is a review article of the book of Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Valeria Miceli "Sovereign Wealth Funds. A complete guide to state-owned investment funds" Harriman House, Petersfield (UK), 2010. This article aims at analyzing the content of the volume in which the authors...

The work addresses the issue of Italian medium-sized enterprises of the fourth capitalism. The question is whether this business model is going to last and actually represent a new model for global competition. This contribution examines the features of the model of the medium industrial...

This paper deals with the issue of the prospects for the Italian economy and its entry into the monetary union in Europe. The Europe is therefore the topic of the moment. In particular, the paper is an analysis of the volume edited by Jader Jacobelli (2000), which in turn contains the...

The non-profit sector or the third sector is taking on in recent years in Italy a more pronounced social and economic importance. This paper analyzes the volume edited by Gian Paolo Barbetta, Stefano Cima and Nereo Zamaro for the publisher il Mulino Le istituzioni non-profit in Italia....

The present contribution focuses on two issues. The first one concerns the characteristics of industrial districts and the increasing weight of these districts in the Italian system of production. The second issue is about the competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they...

Structural change indicates essentially a qualitative transformation and evolution of the economic systems, usually marked by technological progress and organizational changes. Technological factors, knowledge, institutions are all elements that contribute to the process of structural change....

This contribution concerns the European monetary union and single currency, the eur. It addresses the issue of the Stability and Growth Pact and its recent reform by the European Council in March 2005. The debate on the reform of the Pact has focused on the contrast between rules and discretion,...

In this paper I will examine the growth models of Romer (1986) and Lucas (1988) which constitute an important first core to the endogenous growth theory, in order to understand the characteristics, to highlight the relationship between knowledge and economic growth and / or emphasize the...