Since the pioneering contributions of Balassa (1966) and Grubel and Lloyd (1975) revealed a remarkable incidence of simultaneous exports and imports within industries (intra-industry trade) in the foreign trade structure of developed countries, a large body of academic work has expanded...

The labour market in Italy is characterised by the following structurally specific features: 1) Regional differentials. In 1996 the unemployment rate was between 7% and 10% in Central and Northern regions, while it was over 21% in the South where, moreover, the participation rate was also low,...

The impact of international trade on the labour market is a topic of growing interest among economists. In the last two decades income distribution has strongly changed in the USA with a progressive increase in the difference between the wages of skilled and unskilled workers. Even though West...

In a previous paper (O'Higgins, 1994) I looked at the effects that participation on the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) in Britain had on young people's chances of finding work. The discussions of YTS in that paper suggest that wages might be a second suitable indicator of the effectiveness of YTS....

The main of this paper is to set up a model able to embody some peculiarity of the Italian unionised labour market with regard to employment determination. The impact of unions on employment is measured both through direct and indirect effects via wages. Moreover, the theoretical framework used...