In the final months of 2021, GDP growth in the Chinese economy slackened. Beijing’s relationship with large technology companies, but also the ageing population, will play a role in 2022.
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The work of Card, Angrist and Imbens charted an important crossroads for the sector, demonstrating that raising the wage floor does not lead to the employment disasters of which classical economic theory speaks.
Prices of goods and services are generally rising in Italy, Europe and many developed countries. The Bocconi economist helps explain why the resulting wage increases are not necessarily good news.
Technology is in the midst of transforming our economic system, introducing new currencies, new markets, new services. A truly momentous disruption that is impossible to ignore. However, fully realizing its potential requires the promotion of sound financial training, something that is currently lacking in Italy.
Finding a place in the minds of potential customers and reeling in the loyalty of a sceptical, media-bombarded public. This is the positioning strategy
A conversation with the EU Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights on the eve of the European summit in Porto to discuss the Social Pillar Action Plan
The Biden administration’s new labour secretary, a former mayor of Boston, has an extensive record as a trade union member. He now faces the challenge of post-pandemic job recovery
The space economy is innovating business models and opening up experimental services in several traditional and frontier sectors, such as space mining and tourism.
Interview with Ermete Realacci
Combating the pandemic, and policies for the green transition and women: the US president-elect has presented a detailed plan for launching recovery in the United States, starting with jobs (with equality in mind)
Working women bore the main burden of the pandemic and consequent lockdown. Will things be the same next year too? Not for all and not necessarily. In some spheres, women hold the winning hand when it comes to jobs
From jobs to the environment, from the economy to psychology by way of philosophical reflections, the pandemic has accelerated some phenomena and curtailed others. Recent publications offer an abundance of writings, essays and insights on the current moment and on the repercussions we can expect in the future.
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.