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Il Jobs Act dei lavoratori autonomi e le strategie di tutela del contraente debole nei rapporti "b2b": il meticciamento delle regole come preludio a …
2019
Il saggio analizza gli aspetti di interesse prettamente civilistico del cosiddetto "Jobs Act dei lavoratori autonomi" (legge 22 maggio 2017, n. 81), mettendo in evidenza le novità in tema di strategie di tutela del contraente debole-lavoratore autonomo con specifico riferimento all'inserimento di clausole abusive nei contratti ricadenti sotto il suo ambito di operatività e all'abuso di dipendenza economica, e segnalando i tratti di continuità dello strumentario scelto con soluzioni proprie della legislazione consumeristica, nell'ottica di una possibile convergenza tra discipline .
Dynamic Analysis of sectorial Specialization and Agglomeration Economies in the Sicilian Local Labour Systems
2008
This paper examines the spatial dependence among productive specialization, variety of the economic environment and knowledge spillovers. With the aim of identifying localization benefits in a particular area, some aspects of business settling are compared with trends in the development of economic activities and, particularly, with agglomeration process of the firms. On the basis of the model proposed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997) it is possible identifying an “agglomerate space” that is to say a “continuous set of territorial areas specialized in a specific sector one of which, at least, proves to be provided with a level of specialization noticeably exceeding the expected value under the…
Sharing economy e modelli di organizzazione
2015
Nel 2014 il Comitato Economico e Sociale Europeo ha pubblicato un Parere sull’impatto delle pratiche riconducibili alla “maniera tradizionale di condividere, scambiare, prestare, affittare e regalare (…) ridefinite attraverso la tecnologia moderna e le comunità”. Il riferimento è alle attività – solitamente accomunate sotto l’etichetta di sharing economy – di baratto (swap), banche del tempo, valute virtuali, scambio di attrezzi, di terreni, condivisione di giochi, uffici, co-housing, co-working, couchsurfing, car sharing, crowdfunding, bike sharing, noleggio p2p, car pooling. Il documento arriva a preconizzare che la loro diffusione determinerà la “trasformazione concettuale del lavoro” e …
Expectations and the term premium as time varying leading indicators of US economic activity
2009
This paper investigates the growth predictive properties of the expectation-related and term premium components of the US term spread. Results suggest that although the predictive power of two components has greater predictive power compared to the simple spread, it has a time-varying nature. The expectations-related term is positive and statistically significant up to the end of the 80s becoming insignificant afterwards. The term-premium estimates are positive and significant for a brief period in the 70s, turn insignificant after the 80s, except in short intervals at the beginning of the 90s and the 2000s, when they turn negative.
LE REGIONI D’EUROPA TRA IDENTITÀ LOCALI, NUOVE COMUNITÀ E DISPARITÀ TERRITORIAL
2019
Europe today is crossed by a strong demand for autonomy from the territories: on the one hand, to protect the identities of local communities and, on the other, for the growing demand for a wider representation of resident citizens. However, these requests can jeopardize the objectives of balance and integration between parts of the territory and between those who live in them, objectives that have always been at the center of reflection and proposals developed in the context of regional sciences. The recent crisis has heightened instability and widened economic and social gaps not only between regions, but also within the regions themselves. The North-South gaps in Italy have further incre…
Local Tourism System in Sicily: a proposal for the identification through spatial classification with the constraints of contiguity
2012
The theoretical approach to Tourism Economics is based on the systemic nature of tourism, stemming both from the heterogeneity of the tourist package and from the existing complex interactions among destinations, firms, tourists. The systemic nature of tourism and the identification with its geographical representation, that is the destination, introduce the concept of Local Tourist System (LTS). This systemic nature has also been recognized by the Italian legislation by creating of an economic policy instrument, named Local Tourist System: “We call local tourist systems, homogeneous or integrated tourist environments, which include territories belonging even to different regions characteri…
National fiscal consolidations and regional inequality in Europe
2016
Using annual data for 13 European countries over the period 1980-2008, we assess the impact of national fiscal consolidations on the income inequality of European regions. Regional dispersion increases in the outcome of consolidation episodes, particularly, when packages are more severe and implemented through spending cuts rather than tax rises. From a policy perspective, these findings suggest that fiscal consolidations driven by reductions in government spending can exacerbate regional disparities and may ultimately counteract the European policy efforts to promote territorial cohesion. Our results are robust to alternative inequality measures, the occurrence of crisis episodes and the e…
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, CREDIT MARKET CONDITIONS, AND THE HOUSING MARKET
2017
In this paper, we assess the characteristics of the housing market and its main determinants. Using data for 20 industrial countries over the period 1970Q1–2012Q2 and a discrete-time Weibull duration model, we find that the likelihood of the end of a housing boom or a housing bust increases over time. Additionally, we show that the different phases of the housing market cycle are strongly dependent on the economic activity, but credit market conditions are particularly important in the case of housing booms. The empirical findings also indicate that although housing booms have similar lengths in European and non-European countries, housing busts are typically shorter in European countries. …
How best to measure discretionary fiscal policy? Assessing its impact on private spending
2013
We develop a novel empirical approach to assess the effect of discretionary fiscal policy on private spending consisting of three stages: 1) extract the discretionary component of fiscal policy by estimating a fiscal policy rule; 2) use the residuals of the first-stage regression to investigate the existence of crowding-in and/or crowding-out effects both in the short and the medium term; and 3) condition the response of private spending on a set of country characteristics. We find that an expansion in discretionary fiscal policy boosts growth in the short term, but is detrimental in the medium term. In addition, the empirical findings suggest that the effect of discretionary fiscal policy …
Fiscal adjustments and income inequality: a first assessment
2012
Using a statistical approach to identify fiscal adjustments, we find that fiscal consolidation appears to shorten the income gap. Fiscal austerity plans that succeed in bringing public debt to a sustainable path seem to be more likely to reduce inequality. Expansionary fiscal adjustments are particularly important to promote changes in the income distribution.