Ricerc@Sapienza

The current Italian population amounts to about 60.7 million of people and its size is expected to increase by 3.5% in 2050. This is the joint result of a negative natural dynamic (number of births lower than number of deaths) and a positive migration dynamic (number of emigrants lower than number of immigrants). This time trend is divergent from the one of the European context, which is instead expected to decrease by 0.1% in 2050.

This paper provides an in-depth study on the main firm-level drivers of external competitiveness during the recent crisis in Italy. We contribute to the debate on the Italian international position by presenting evidence based on a unique sample survey database (the MET dataset). Overall, our results confirm the high degree of heterogeneity of the Italian corporate sector and the well-known differences between internationalised and domestic companies in terms of performance as well as structure and behaviour.

adverse effects on competition and legal businesses; on the other hand, there are benefits through
(shadow) employment and income in less-developed areas, as well as benefits through relations of
political clientage. We focus on counterfeiting and its economic effects on trade in Italy during the
economic crisis. Using a newly built regional dataset and a dynamic panel model, we find evidence
of the dual impact of counterfeiting. The production (and exchange) of fake goods depresses the

This study considers the enrolment at university and the subsequent possible dropout as a piece of the school-to-work transition and asks whether it improves or worsens the labour market outcomes a few years after graduation from the high school.

In the next section we present in more detail the architecture of the Italian pension system before the Great Recession and the main reforms adopted during the “crisis”. The third section addresses the main pension challenges after the latest wave of reform by focusing on the three analytical dimensions mentioned above. The fourth section analyses both pension politics and governance after two decades of reforms, with a special focus on the challenges for the trade unions and their constituencies in the novel pension arenas. The fifth section concludes.

The literature on renewable energy sources (RES) does not provide a shared methodology to measure the
sectorial intensity of production linked to RES. Furthermore, empirical evidence on the relationship between
RES sectorial intensity and workers’ earnings is scant. The aim of this paper is to fill in these literature gaps
providing, on the one hand, an original microdata-based methodology to measure the RES sectorial intensity,
and, on the other hand, estimating, through panel data techniques, the relationship between RES sectorial

The reduction of protections in the event of an unlawful dismissal, made by the c.d. The Job Act issued in 2014-2015 by the Italian Parliament and Government, with a particular focus to workers hired after March 7, 2015, was the subject of an order submitted by the Labor Court of Rome to the Italian Constitutional Court, on suspicion of unconstitutionality. The legal construction used by the Judge highlights the violation of Article 24 ESC as an >. It is the first time that an Italian Labor Court has raised this issue so clearly.

This paper aims at analysing women’s business around Europe and Extra-Europe countries to draw the current
scenario and to create a theoretical background to investigate in our future research which is the contribution of relational
dimension as intangible asset to the born of small and medium women’s businesses. Building similarities, differences and
changes, this analysis has been conducted in Southern European Country (Italy), Nordic country (Finland) and Southerneastern

Relational capital is a critical asset in the Knowledge Economy. It refers to the sum of relations an entrepreneur establishes with the external environment and stakeholders aimed to generate business value. Relational capital is particularly relevant for start-ups and for women entrepreneurs. This chapter analyzes the role of relational capital in women in entrepreneurship based on a start-up case associated with a regional Imprendero program to support entrepreneurs during 2011-2012 that coincide with the financial crisis.

Relational capital is a vital asset of the contemporary economy, and it refers to the sum of relations among organizations and their stakeholders to create value. Previous literature states that relational capital appears as a strategic asset, especially for start-ups run by women entrepreneurs. We aim to deepen the dynamics of relational capital in female entrepreneurship, especially start-ups, analyzing the Italian context during the years 2011–2012, known as the time of the financial crisis.