This paper aims to investigate to what extent Italy’s growth divergence from major industrialised countries is explained by structural dynamics driven by the evolution of technological change over the past two decades. Along the lines of the main theoretical contributions that address the role...

C<sc>iriaci</sc> D. Does university quality influence the interregional mobility of students and graduates? The case of Italy, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper analyses the role that university quality holds, among other socio-economic factors, in the sequential migration behaviour of Italian students and...

This article aims to describe the brain drain from Southern Italy (the so-called Mezzogiorno) to Northern Italy and to analyze its causes and consequences. To this end, we have processed the individual data of the ISTAT survey on the professional placement of the graduates of 2001 three years...

This study compared the employment growth patterns of innovative and non-innovative firms, focusing on whether or not there are systematic differences between these two categories in the persistence of the jobs they create. To this end, a unique longitudinal dataset of 3304 Spanish firms over...