Economia&Lavoro

It is available a new issue of Economia&Lavoro, the FGB four-monthly journal of economic policy, sociology and industrial relations founded by Giacomo Brodolini, nowadays under the direction of Enzo Bartocci and Giuseppe Ciccarone. The September-December issue collects two sections named “Dialogue”: Riforma della contrattazione, produttività e crescita: un dialogo tra economisti and Better Health for Better Integration: Inequalities and Policy Responses for Ethnic Minority Women in Four Countries. This last section, dedicated to the health status of ethnic minority women in Italy, Romania, Sweden and UK, is an insight related to the homonymous project by FGB under the coordination of Angela Genova. Instead, the first section presents the introduction by Leonello Tronti “How to come off the tunnel? 12 questions on bargaining and productivity”. On 4 June 2012, at the Faculty of Business premises', Sapienza University of Rome, some experts analyzed the causes of the productivity negative trend in our country in relation to collective bargaining. Giuseppe Ciccarone, Nicola Acocella, Riccardo Leoni, Marcello Messori, Paolo Pini and many other experts partecipated in the meeting in order to share knowledge and expertise about the results of analyses conducted and proposals of policies. Besides other things, this issue of E&L, collects the contributions from experts that took part to this meeting. The basis of this section is a 12 questions list made by Leonello Tronti on this topic. Index.