The aim of this paper is to explore the effects of spillovers driven by competition and forward and backward linkages between foreign firms and Italian firms. We adopt the firm dynamics framework, which allows us to test the impact of foreign firms’ activity on the probability that local firms...

This paper analyses the relationship between the characteristics of parents (namely, income, occupation and education) and the unemployment duration of their children using the job search theory. The empirical specification featured Lancaster’s (Econometrics 28:113–126, 1985) simultaneous...

Thanks to the debate on the so called ®reservation wage paradox¯, it is fairly well known that job seekers in Southern Italy report, on average, higher reservation wages than in Central and Northern Italy, despite much higher unemployment in the South. It is less well known, however, that upon...

To what extent do financial constraints act as conditioning factors on firm productivity? Is this impact different across firm size classes and across sectors and in what way is it different? We explore these issues for Morocco. We use firm level data, taken from two surveys of the World Bank...

<i> Differenze regionali nel mercato del lavoro in Europa </i> (di Adalgiso Amendola, Floro Ernesto Caroleo e Gianluigi Coppola) - ABSTRACT: Negli anni Novanta, il mercato del lavoro dell’Unione Europea è stato caratterizzato dalla persistenza dei divari esistenti tra le regioni. Scopo di questo...