Will It Be a Jobless Growth?

Fondazione Ing. Rodolfo Debenedetti, jointly with Università Bocconi, has organized the workshop “Will it be a Jobless Growth? Explaining Unemployment Dynamics during the Great Recession and Beyond”. In this occasion Ravi Balakrishnan and Prakash Kannan, economists at the International Monetary Fund, presented the latest and indeed hot off the press World Economic Outlook. It has been a great opportunity to understand the IMF views on the economic crisis and how to get out of it. The speakers focused in particular on the unemployment problem, giving some interesting suggestions to reform the Italian labour market. Tito Boeri (Università Bocconi and Fondazione Ing. Rodolfo Debenedetti) introduced the event.