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European economic integration and Italian labour policies / edited by Gilberto Antonelli and Nicola De Liso.
Lippincott Library HD5784 .E96 2004
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- ix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
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- 3 Prevailing visions of economic analysis and economic policy 4
- 4 Nature and causes of unemployment: general aspects 5
- 4.1 Short-term flexibility 5
- 4.2 The evolution of financial markets, fiscal policy and investment demand 6
- 4.3 Evolution of the markets for goods and services 7
- 4.4 Institutional change, geopolitical developments and demographic trends 8
- 4.5 Technological change, work organisation and skills 9
- 5 Appropriate strategies? 13
- 6 Origin, structure and translation of the work 15
- 6.1 The origin 15
- 2. Labour Market Trends in Europe and Italy
- 1 European labour markets evolution: stylised facts and interpretative hints 21
- 2 The Italian labour market: peculiarities of a changing system 24
- 2.1 Demographic dynamics 25
- 2.2 Participation dynamics 28
- 2.3 Employment dynamics 32
- 2.4 The importance of self-employment 37
- 2.5 Non-standard employment 38
- 2.6 Unemployment dynamics 40
- 2.7 Internal and external migrations 46
- 2.8 The problem of undeclared work 50
- 2.9 Labour costs 52
- 3. Labour Policies and Employment Strategies
- 1 Labour markets and flexibility: the Oecd strategy 59
- 2 Unemployment and inequality: the vision of Ilo 61
- 3 Development, labour market and employment in Europe 62
- 3.1 Delors' White Paper 62
- 3.2 Labour market regulation in the European Union 65
- 3.3 Employment policies and information and communication technologies 69
- 4 Employment policies and the European Monetary Union 73
- 4.1 The admission criteria: macroeconomic harmonisation and convergence costs 73
- 4.2 The centralisation of monetary policy: the effects on the adjustment mechanisms 74
- 4.3 Some implications arising from past economic policies 77
- 4.4 The uncertain consequences of the Amsterdam, Luxemburg and Lisbon summits 78
- 5 Labour policies in Italy in the 1990s 82
- 4. Structural Labour Policies
- 1 Structural labour policies: passive policies 89
- 2 Active labour policies: labour flexibility 91
- 2.1 The turnover of employees in Italy 93
- 2.2 The differential enforcement of labour contract clauses 98
- 2.3 Workers' mobility and employment services 100
- 2.4 Active manpower policies and the need for information 103
- 2.5 Flexible management of working time 106
- 3 Gender differences and equal opportunities policies 108
- 3.1 Gender, work and family life 108
- 3.2 Gender differences in labour market participation and earnings 110
- 4 From labour development programmes to job creation policies 114
- 5 Policies promoting the legitimisation of undeclared work 117
- 5. Education, Training and Participation Strategies
- 1 Introductory framework 125
- 2 Training strategies 128
- 2.1 Training and transitions in the labour market 128
- 2.2 Training and skills shortages 131
- 2.3 Education, training and technological innovation 134
- 2.4 Vocational training-cum-employment contracts 136
- 3 Professional structure 139
- 3.1 Training needs and labour demand 139
- 3.2 Firm size, internal labour markets and professional requirements 141
- 3.3 Training needs and local labour markets 143
- 4 Unemployment and family support 149
- 5 Work organisation and participation 151
- 5.1 Decentralised bargaining and participation 151
- 5.2 Salaries and participation 162
- 6. Structural Employment Policies
- 1 Growth and employment 171
- 2 Domestic demand, income policies, anti-cyclical policies 175
- 3 Sectoral structure of demand and employment growth 180
- 4 Job creation and destruction 186
- 5 Open local labour markets and local policies 188
- 5.1 Institutions, local development and labour market 188
- 5.2 Sustainability of local systems of production 192
- 6 Environmental and territorial policies 196
- 6.1 Measurement problems and the perspectives of the 'green industry' 196
- 6.2 Adaptation of competencies and skills 198
- 6.3 Double (or triple) dividend 199
- 7 Teleworking 200
- 8 Credit, financial constraints and employment 207
- 8.1 Financial constraints and labour supply 207
- 8.2 Credit market and labour demand 208
- 8.3 A stock exchange for small firms 210
- 7. Policies to Reform Social Institutions
- 1 Verifying the rules, reforming social institutions and income support policies 215
- 1.1 Citizenship income 215
- 1.2 The welfare state between conservation and innovation 218
- 2 A real industrial policy 221
- 2.1 The creation of human capital 221
- 2.2 Incentives for the creation of new firms 225
- 3 Non-profit sector and concrete jobs 228
- 3.1 Non-profit sector models 228
- 3.2 Non-profit sector development and employment 233
- 3.3 Concrete jobs and socially useful jobs 235
- 4 New proposals on working hours and taxation 237
- 4.1 Alternative approaches to the reduction of working hours 237
- 4.2 Taxation of income from employment: a few proposals 240
- 8. Problems of Policy Evaluation
- 1 How to evaluate labour policies 251
- 1.1 What can be learnt from the experiences of 'mature' policy evaluation? 251
- 1.2 The problem of evaluation and the institutional set-up of the labour market 258
- 2 How labour and employment policies can be classified 261
- 2.1 The classification of labour policies 261
- 2.2 A new macroeconomic proposal to classify labour policies 264
- 9. Conclusions A: Wage moderation, wage differentials and the evolution of the employment relation in Italy. A critical comment on the White Book of the Italian Ministry of Labour
- 2 The bargaining model and the 'social pact' 274
- 3 Bargaining models, wage differentials and the North-South gap 278
- 4 The transformation of the 'employment relation', employability and human capital 285
- 4.1 Is there a trend towards a decline in long-term employment relations? 286
- 4.2 Is the diffusion of short-term jobs in Italy the result of an 'escape' from regular employment? 287
- 4.3 How do dismissals affect employability? 289
- 4.4 Is freedom of dismissal collectively desirable? Moral hazard, contractual fragility and firing taxes 290
- 10. Conclusions B: Structural policies for structural change in Italy and the European Union
- 2 A new ordering of economic policies 300
- 3 The changing meaning and definition of structural change and structural policy 304
- 4 Phases of growth and economic policy 306
- 4.1 A theoretical framework 306
- 4.3 A rough comparison between the economies of the EU and the US 311
- 4.4 Labour and money markets in different phases of growth 311.
- Notes:
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- "The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS (Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche)"--Prelim. p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754619486
- OCLC:
- 54073879
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