This paper aims to analyze the Italian University’s physical and human cognitive assets. First we focus on the continuous reductions in public funding (CNVSU, 2011; OECD, 2010) that constrained the Italian university to develop 'entrepreneurial skills', in other words due to the lack of...

This paper confronts Greenwald's model of adverse selection in the labour market, with Topel and Ward's model of job shopping. According to Greenwald's contribution, in a sequence of periods, workers' freedom to change jobs is seriously reduced by a process of adverse selection. The labour...