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Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Berloto Sara, Longo Francesco, Notarnicola Elisabetta, Perobelli Eleonora, Rotolo Andrea

Old Age as Stimulus for a New Form of Welfare

The perspective of the silver economy requires expanding our viewpoint, integrating the needs and attitudes of older people into welfare practices. The first market sectors that have looked towards the silver segment have been tourism, art and culture, transport, and wellness. Compared to people under 35, in Italy those who are over 65 have higher average pro-capita consumption, higher average income, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Salaris Luisa

How the Demographic Profile Has Changed

Italy holds the record as the oldest country in Europe: 22.8 percent of its inhabitants are over 65 years of age. Moreover, since 2015, the country has been losing an average of 100,000 inhabitants per year, showing its inability for demographic growth. The exceptional longevity of its population places it at the top spot in the world. In addition, once passing 65, both men and women lead increasingly ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Simontacchi Stefano

The Golden Rules for Doing Business

Africa is an area in which doing business is challenging and at the same time very promising. For those who decide to operate on the continent, the selection of the countries from which to start or on which to focus is crucial, as is the medium to long-term strategic approach to adopt. The most promising countries are those with more diversified economies and less dependence on single resources, such ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Buccoliero Luca, Bellio Elena

Large-scale retailers Aim to Conquer the Silver Customer

The over-65 population segment is characterized by strong elements of diversity and cannot be considered as a single homogenous group, but to the contrary, requires careful and analytic profiling. The silver population has been neglected by commercial offers, especially as regards the purchase experiences of food products and the design of large-scale retail points of sale.#The silver segment particularly ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) da Empoli Stefano

The Reason of Optimism in Italy

To translate the potential advantage over foreign competitors into a reality, Italian businesses need to make an organizational change and strengthen their abilities in the sector of artificial intelligence; while important players for the economy such as institutions and business representatives must increase their efforts to provide all of the support necessary for the required technological upgrade. ...

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) Perretti Fabrizio

Business-Labor: Equal Status and Common Planning

The pandemic has highlighted the fragilities and deep inequalities that characterize the current economic system. At the same time, a process has begun that requires a profound change, the participation of workers in business decisions. Fifty years after Italy's "Workers' Statute" was passed, the time has come to define a new statute that guarantees the same rights and protections, independent of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Reyneri Emilio

Four Possible Destinies for Labor Unions

Since the end of the 1970s, in almost all European countries the generational shift in the world of labor has caused a drop in the levels of unionization. Many factors have contributed to this decline, related to both the market and the organization of work. Deindustrialization, polarization of professional structures, and the increase of immigrant workers risk undermining the social cohesion between ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Berta Giuseppe

All of the Doubts and Challenges within Confindustria

The representation of business interests is more difficult today than in the past, due to processes of differentiation of the system of businesses. In a nation like Italy, though, representation has a greater presence, because economics and politics are more interwoven than elsewhere. For decades Confindustria had a role of stable representation thanks to the strong political legitimation earned after ...

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 ...