Simonazzi, Annamaria and Villa, Paola and Lucidi, Federico and Naticchioni, Paolo (2008) Continuity and change in the Italian model: Italy’s laborious convergence towards the European social model. Working Paper. Dipartimento di Economia Pubblica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italia.
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Abstract
Changes in social patterns and in social policies have profoundly transformed the Italian family and society. New technological and economic conditions have challenged the old pattern of production, employment and labour standards. Italy’s response has been a “limping reformism”: the various components of the Italian social model have developed along different lines. While convergence on legislative features and on macroeconomic policy has been almost mandatory, owing to the external constraints represented by European directives and the common currency, in other fields, namely the labour and product markets, reforms have often been “at the margin” or have not substantially altered the Italian model. Failure (or only partial implementation) of reforms in one area has shifted the cost to other areas. The end result has been the exacerbation of old segmentations and the creation of new ones and the convergence at different speeds on the “European social model”.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | JEL classification: I00; J00; O52. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | European social model; welfare state; labour market reforms; productive systems. |
| Subjects: | 300 Scienze sociali > 330 Economia |
| Depositing User: | Dipartimento economia e diritto |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2010 12:01 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/808 |
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