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Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work

Tindara Addabbo , Giovanni Solinas

The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low...

Social Exclusion

Giuliana Parodi , Dario Sciulli

The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008.The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis...

The Economics of Small Businesses

Giorgio Calcagnini , Ilario Favaretto

Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more...

The Economics of Imperfect Markets

Giorgio Calcagnini , Enrico Saltari

Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy

Sergio Destefanis , Marco Musella

The book provides an up-to-date analytical and empirical treatment of some important interactions between paid and unpaid labour and the social economy.The emphasis on the motivations for paid and unpaid labour, and on how these factors contribute to efficiently...

Effective and Efficient Organisations?

Iris A. Hauswirth

This book develops a conceptual framework for the relationship between organisation and output, and applies it to the analysis of German and British export support services. These findings help to explain why one organisation may be different from another, but equally...

Research and Technological Innovation

Marco Fortis , Alberto Quadrio Curzio