Gli Effetti Perversi Della Moderazione Salariale In Italia E La Proposta Di Stato Innovatore Di Prima Istanza

The economic policies implemented in Italy in recent years, fully consistent with European Commission recommendations and with what has been achieved in other European countries, are essentially based on two axes: fiscal consolidation and structural reforms. Fiscal consolidation is achieved by cutting public spending and increasing the tax burden, with a reduction, in particular, in social spending and welfare services and with an increase in taxation - which is becoming less and less progressive - especially to the detriment of workers. The so-called structural reforms concern the processes of privatization and liberalization and, above all, further measures of labour precarization. The aim of this paper is (i) to account for the failure of these measures in relation to the declared objective of generating a recovery in economic growth and increasing the employment rate; (ii) to put forward the proposal for a greater public intervention aimed at making the State an employer and innovator of first resort.