This paper discusses the issue of unemployment in Italy and the consequences on the labor market following the global financial crisis and the subsequent public debt crisis in Europe. It also exposes some reflections on the nature and characteristics of unemployment and the factors that...

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...