Italy's aggregate productivity abruptly stopped growing in the mid-1990s. This stop
represents a puzzle, as it occurred at a time of stable macroeconomic conditions. In this …

This article analyses the “Jobs Act”—the last structural reform implemented in Italy—framing
it within the labour market reform process starting in 1997. Taking advantage of different …

The objective of this paper is to explain the reasons behind the dynamics of labor
productivity (LP) growth during a process of institutional and structural change. We show-by …

Dicevano: meno diritti, più crescita. Abbiamo solo meno diritti. La modernità paga a cottimo.
Così dilaga il lavoro povero, spesso gratuito, la totale assenza di tutele e di stabilità …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the Italian total factor productivity (TFP) growth
for the 1995-2012 period that takes into account the factors explaining cross-regional …

Lucio Baccaro is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.
His research focuses on the political economy of labor markets and growth models, and …

This article investigates the relationships between technological change and employment
considering the dynamics of four major professional groups-Managers, Clerks, Craft and …

Law 183 of 2014, evocatively named the" Jobs Act", has determined a deep change in the
Italian industrial relations. Bringing at completion a reform process begun in the 1990s, the …

This paper studies the effect of permanent and temporary labor contracts on both labor-
augmenting and TFP-augmenting technological factors using a panel dataset of Italian …

Has the strategy of the" external constraint"(voluntarily limiting the country's policy-making
discretion by tying it to the European mast) contributed to Italy's stagnation over the past …