COVER -- Quartino -- Dedica -- Indice -- Prefazione, di Marco Leonardi -- Prefazione alla seconda edizione -- Prefazione alla prima edizione -- Abbreviazioni -- Introduzione -- Capitolo Primo. Caratteristiche generali del mercato del lavoro giovanile -- 04 Capitolo 2 [025-070] -- 05 Capitolo 3...

This paper suggests that the insufficient work experience of young people as compared to adults is the major cause of the hardship the former experience in the labour market both in terms of employment and wages. Economists are bewildered as to the determinants of and as to the ways to cure the...

Incomes policy started with the San Valentine's decree of 1984, which marks the beginning of the process that led to the abolishment of Scala Mobile and reached its peak with the Protocollo d'intesa of 1993. The work proposes to study by cointegration analysis the effects of incomes policy on...

The European Employment Strategy stresses the role of human capital accumulation, to increase via reforms of the education system and active labour market policy on a large scale, as the main instruments against unemployment. We argue that these instruments might be more effective than...