Università Roma Tre

I. THE LABOUR MARKET

- The peculiarity of the labour market
- Changes in employment and its composition
- The measure of labour unemployment and underemployment
- Time and piece wages
- Wage differentials
- The share of wages in national income
- Trade unions and collective bargaining
II. THEORETICAL MODELS
- The neoclassical theory of wages and employment
- Employment and wages in the Keynesian model
- The IS-LM model
- From the Beveridge curve to the Phillips curve
- The interpretations of the Phillips curve
- The search theory and the theory of human capital
- The new-Keynesian economics
- Imperfection competition, NAIRU and distributive conflict
- Alternative theories of wages and employment
- Subsistence wage, surplus wage and the competition in the labour market
III..EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS AND LABOUR POLICIES
- The European strategy for employment
- The reforms of the labour market in Italy and Europe
- Welfare systems and financial capitalism
- Measures against poverty: basic income and schemes of job-guarantee
- Wages and labour productivity
- Wage share and employment
- Potential output, NAIRU and structural deficit
- Innovations, productivity and working time

P. Tridico, ECONOMIA DEL LAVORO. Analisi macroeconomica, evidenze empiriche e politiche del lavoro" Mondadori Università, 2019.
ES. Levrero, Lectures slides and notes