Labour market deregulation, taxation and labour productivity in a Marxian–Kaldorian perspective: the case of Italy
结合马克思和卡尔多的理论框架，分析意大利经济衰退，认为劳动力市场放松管制和劳动税收增加导致收入不平等加剧和劳动生产率增长放缓。
Abstract This paper deals with the Italian recession in a theoretical framework which combines Marxian and Kaldorian elements. The interpretation proposed of the slow rate of growth of the Italian economy in the last decades is based on the view that the implementation of a liberal agenda (mainly in the form of increasing labour market deregulation and increasing taxation on labour) has generated increasing income inequality and the reduction of the growth rate. The basic idea, derived from Kaldor, is that the decline of labour share, the increasing precariousness and measures of fiscal consolidation have reduced domestic demand with negative effects on the level of employment and the growth of labour productivity. Moreover, the increase in public debt involves increasing taxation (mainly on labour), which, in turn, contributes to the reduction of the rate of growth of labour productivity via the deterioration of the quality of the workforce.