Urban dynamics was studied during the eighties in terms of the so-called ‘urban life cycle theory’ which was launched by the Vienna group within the CURB (costs of urban growth) project. The main elements of this theory, as well as its limits, are already well known. It provides an elegant...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro analizza la variabilità territoriale dei prezzi delle case, concentrandosi in particolare sul gradiente dal centro verso i quartieri e i comuni periferici. Le differenze lungo queste dimensioni nelle aree urbane sono ampie, anche più di quelle esistenti tra Centro...

When Court enforcement is excessively difficult or costly, agents are often able to create «endogenous enforcement mechanisms», that is, to design agreements so that each party finds it optimal to carry them out (self-enforcing implicit contracts), thanks to the threat of sanctions affecting...

The entrance of young people in the labour market at older ages than in the past is correlated to the increased trend in education. Both these changes, the delay in entrances and the increase in the number of years spent at school, are much more marked in the case of women. One additional school...

Collective bargaining at company level has not been particularly widespread, especially at small firms and in the South. The Bank of Italy’s survey shows that performancerelated wage premia have been paid irregularly and have involved only small amounts. Nevertheless they have fostered a...

Questo saggio esplora la situazione del mercato del lavoro italiano, in un contesto europeo e comparato, dal punto di vista delle recenti trasformazioni contrattuali e sociali intervenuti. Si sostiene la necessità di trovare un raccordo, in Italia, tra la dimensione di flessibilità, ormai...

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...

Marx develops two alternative theories of the employment contract: one treats it as an agreement of commodity exchange, and one as a relational arrangement. In the former theory Marx introduces the notion of 'labour power' as a physical stock of labour capacity. Then he argues that the worker,...