“The great challenge of the university thus concerns the impact it creates: to develop knowledge that has an impact on the life of organizations and stakeholders”. An interview with Enzo Peruffo

Daniel Gros analyses the state of regional convergence within the European context. He finds that different country groups have had quite different experiences following the financial crisis and that in most cases there has been little convergence across regions within countries. More importantly, the seemingly permanent differences in regional per capita income are for some countries mainly the result of differences in occupation ratios.

A new article by Michel Martone examines a tendency of the Italian labor market, causing employment for those over 50 to increase while that of the under 35 diminishes. The lack of promotion of generational turnover compromises the economic system’s ability to be competitive

Valentina Meliciani and Roberta Radicchia investigate recruitment systems in the Italian labor market. Their findings demonstrate that too often, hiring in Italy occurs through “informal networks” that cause reduced mobility for workers and imbalance between education levels and jobs performed