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Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Perugini Mario

Aggregate Demand is the Italian Problem

Between 1992 and 2018, the Italian economy saw a worrying slowdown of growth of aggregate demand, due above all to the significant contraction of private and public consumption. In the same period, Italy has been among the European countries that have made the greatest effort to reduce protections for insecure workers, leading to an exponential increase of workers with fixed-term contracts.#From a ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Colella Francesca

How and Why Solitude is Growing among Insecure Workers

At the end of 2019, the total number of insecure workers in Italy was 3.123 million, a figure that has certainly been aggravated by the explosion of the pandemic in the early months of 2020. The general weakening of labor unions can be attributed, on the one hand, to the reduction of demand for labor in sectors where they were traditionally the strongest (services); and on the other, to the changes ...