In the current political-institutional debate in Europe, starting from '90, about local development incentives and promotion of innovative enterprises, our focus is on welfare reform based on decentralization, as power devolution to local agencies and communities. This new approach on welfare...

This paper is carried on in the current political institutional debate in Europe, starting from '90, concerning both local development incentives and promotion of innovative enterprises from bottom up. Among many policies in this strand, we focus on the welfare reform in Italy, essentially based...

The much discussed finding based on ISTAT Labour Force data that the monthly reservation wage is higher on average among unemployed people in the South of Italy, despite persistent unemployment in this area, has so far strengthened the belief that Southern unemployment has a strong voluntary...

In this paper we explore how firms' productivity is affected by agglomeration of firms, clustering of innovation and localisation of FDI in Turkey, Italy and Tunisia. We also control for the impact of firm characteristics on firm productivity (specifically the role of size, ownership and firm...