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Author-Name: Ferruccio Marzano
Author-Name: Cristiano Colombi

Title: A New View on Economic Competitiveness
Abstract: The paper refers to the construction of some Indexes of Competitiveness and their application to the empirical analysis of the behaviour of Italian manufacturing industry in recent years. The idea is that an essential role in competitiveness is played by the specific characteristics of the goods and services concerned. With particular reference to competition between a mature economy (like Italy) and an emergent one (e.g. like China), attention is specifically directed to the behaviour of goods? demand and supply according to their characteristics. Then, an extended Leontief Input-Output model is pursued including the impact of goods? characteristics. At the empirical level, the role of goods? characteristics is analysed as to the behaviour of competitiveness of Italian manufacturing products in the period from 2000 to 2008.
Classification-JEL: C67, R11
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Pages:5-48
Volume: 2011/103
Year: 2011
Issue:103
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Number: 1

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Author-Name: Luca Michelini

Title: Dalla "dottrina Krugman-Stiglitz" alla dottrina "Keynes-Marx"
Abstract: The paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of Stiglitz?s and Krugman?s analysis of the causes that have produced the present crisis and of their economic policy prescriptions. Moving from the Italian tradition of economics, the paper discusses the characteristics of Keynes? and Marx?s analysis on economic crises and concludes offering some thoughts on the socialization of investments.
Classification-JEL: E 12, E11, B22
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Pages:49-73
Volume: 2011/103
Year: 2011
Issue:103
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Number: 2

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Author-Name: Lorenzo Corsini
Author-Name: Elisabetta Olivieri

Title: The Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Workers: An Analysis for Italy
Abstract: The authors study the evolution of the wage differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Italy from 1977 to 2004. In this period, the differentials do not show a clear trend (apart for a feeble increasing trend in the very last years) and they fluctuate around a fairly stable mean. Four factors may influence the evolution of those differentials: relative supply of skilled and unskilled workers, technological change (which may be biased toward a certain category), international commerce, and, finally, institutions in the labour market. After discussing some of these aspects from a theoretical point of view, the authors perform an econometrical analysis for the Italian case with the SUR estimation technique, and test which of these factors are important in explaining the evolution of the differentials and how they affect different categories of workers.
Classification-JEL: J24, J31, O33
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Pages:75-94
Volume: 2011/103
Year: 2011
Issue:103
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Number: 3

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Author-Name:  Andrea Imperia

Title: Articolo 18 versus tutela dei precari. Osservazioni critiche sul "contratto unico"
Abstract: This paper deals with Boeri and Garibaldi?s proposal for a new permanent employment contract in Italy, based on the French contrat nouvelles embauches model (abrogated in 2008, after ILO disapproval). They call this new contract "single", although it would abrogate none of the extant Italian contracts. It provides for an initial three-year phase wherein the worker may be fired without the benefit of judicial appeal, but indemnified instead. According to the authors, this would encourage businesses to invest in workers? formation during the three years. Whereupon the workers? productivity would sustain the costs of the current anti-unfair dismissal laws. This paper shows that rather than empowering unprotected workers such a reform would bring about a generalized reduction of all workers? rights. The consequent disbalance of forces in favour of businesses would negatively impact on wages and aggregate demand, further complicating the problem of low economic growth in Italy.
Classification-JEL: J08, J41, J42
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Pages:95-126
Volume: 2011/103
Year: 2011
Issue:103
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Number: 4

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Title: Recensioni
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Pages:121-133
Volume: 2011/103
Year: 2011
Issue:103
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Number: 5

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Title: Libri ricevuti
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Pages:135-135
Volume: 2011/103
Year: 2011
Issue:103
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Number: 6