Figure 3 - uploaded by Pedro M. Rey-Araujo
Content may be subject to copyright.
Evolution of wage-employment per type of contract. Source: Labor Force Survey, Spanish National Institute of Statistics. Unit: Thousands.
Source publication
This article explores the evolution of Spain’s capitalism during the last decades in order to unveil the factors underlying the harshness with which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Spain. We present a twofold thesis. On the one hand, we argue that Spanish capitalism has harbored certain internal vulnerabilities, relative to its productive specia...
Context in source publication
Context 1
... high prevalence of temporary contracts during the previous expansion, together with the paralysis experienced by a construction sector with high knock-on effects, help account for these dynamics (OECD 2018;Mateo and Montany a 2018). As a result, consumption (which had spurred aggregate demand) declined notably as households attempted a painful process of de-leveraging by increasing their savings, although, in fact, household debt was scarcely reduced (Rey-Ara ujo 2021) (Figure 3). ...
Citations
The article draws attention to the efforts of comprehension of the labour market transformation in the area of taxi and food delivery services in the Russian Federation. The key feature of these areas is the leading role of maternal companies of digital platforms, which provides them with a competitive advantage in the market. The research hypothesis states that regardless of non-zero-sum games adherents’ declarations, the main rules of such games within the framework of the digital economy remained unchanged. The main conclusion of this work is the thesis that the economy of digital platforms, which had been placed with high expectations by ideologists of the post-industrial transition, did not solve the contradictions and flaws inherent in capitalist relations. The article reflects on the idea of institutional political economy’s hindrance in the context of the issue along with the national factor of exploitation in the labour market in the taxi and food delivery industry.KeywordsPolitical economyPostindustrial revolutionDigital platformsDigitalisationLabour marketMarxism
The RRP (Italian National Plan for Recovery and Resilience) is the plan for Italian economic policy in the context of the European Next Generation EU (NGEU) and is structured in the form of investments designed to achieve the goals of growth and resilience. The aim of this article is to provide an analysis of this Plan, for the purpose of studying its adequacy in reducing imbalances both among European countries and within Italy, as well as in reducing unemployment.
