Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the link between flexible pay systems (FPS) and labor productivity, also looking at which factors drive firms to adopt such wage schemes. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is conducted on an original sample extracted from a firm-level survey...

This paper aims to evaluate the additionality of innovation policy in terms of innovative behaviours at the regional level. Innovative behaviours are identified both within and across firm and regional boundaries. The role of policy is evaluated for a sample of firms in the Italian region of...

L’accordo sulla produttività del 21 novembre 2012, induce preoccupazione e sconforto per quello che dice e per quello che non dice. Il testo non costituisce un passo avanti nelle relazioni industriali in tema di modello di regolazione del legame tra retribuzione del lavoratore e risultati...

Productivity and wages are stagnant, effective demand is in contraction, growth appears now as an illusion and we have also decline in bargaining. How to restore a "virtuos" path also re-thinking objectives and methods of collective bargaining. Can the proposal of a planned and bargained...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the relationships between working conditions, innovation activities and industrial relations in two local production systems located in the northern Italy, exploiting data collected through ad‐hoc surveys in 2004 and 2006. Design/methodology/approach –...

In this work we explore how the international outsourcing of production impacts the skill composition of employment within Italian manufacturing firms. In particular, our aim is to assess whether the choice to offshore production activities to cheap-labour countries implies a bias in the...

Partendo dalla base di studi microeconomici sul comportamento delle imprese in termini di attività innovativa, il presente lavoro offre un’analisi empirica per un sistema produttivo locale (Ferrara) volta ad evidenziare la presenza di legami tra attività innovativa in differenti sfere e...

The paper aims to provide an original contribution to evaluating several kinds of relations between four areas of innovation activities - training, technology, organization, ICT (information and communication technologies) - and industrial relations and firm's economic performance. Quantitative...

The shifting of labour demand toward relatively more skilled workers has been a hot issue in the economic field for many years. A consolidated explanation for the upskilling phenomenon is that technological-organisational changes have driven the labour demand with detrimental consequences for...