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Primary scope of research about the Italian labour market is to analyse whether it works as a traditional inputs market. First of all it is difficult to define the Italian labour market as a perfect competition market: in fact this market does not appear as a perfect competition one and, on the other hand, many law provisions, protecting the employees and favouring the unemployed, do not allow a spontaneous supply-demand equilibrium.
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Goisis, G., Porrini, D. (1996). Labour Market Regulation in Italy, Employment and Welfare. In: Baldassarri, M., Paganetto, L., Phelps, E.S. (eds) Equity, Efficiency and Growth. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24649-6_7
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