Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 65,186
Cover Image
Inconsistencies in reported employment characteristics among employed stayers
Bassi, Francesca (contributor);  … - 2008
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and … aggregated classifications. They suggest that even cross-section estimates of employment by industry and/or professional status … are affected by non-random measurement error. -- Industry ; professional status ; measurement errors ; survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793541
Cover Image
Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics Among Employed Stayers
Bassi, Francesca - 2009
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and … aggregated classifications. They suggest that even cross-section estimates of employment by industry and/or professional status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765324
Cover Image
Measuring the Quality of Work : The Case of the Italian Social Cooperatives
Golia, Silvia; Carpita, Maurizio - 2019
Quality of work has within a short time become a major subject of study and discussion in labour economy. Its quantification is a challenging task because it implies the translation of various subjective perceptions into a single objective measure (composite indicator). In this paper, the method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043840
Cover Image
Unemployment and Hysteresis : A Nonlinear Unobserved Components Approach
Di Sanzo, Silvestro; Perez-Alonso, Alicia - 2010
A new test for hysteresis based on a nonlinear unobserved components model is proposed. Observed unemployment rates are decomposed into a natural rate component and a cyclical component. Threshold type nonlinearities are introduced by allowing past cyclical unemployment to have a different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189791
Cover Image
The impact of unlisted and no-landline respondents on non-coverage bias : the Italian case
Sala, Emanuela; Lillini, Roberto - 2014
To survey the general population, survey agencies often use sampling frames of landline numbers. However, these frames may exclude a relevant share of the target population. In 2012, 50% of Italian adults are excluded from the sampling frame, as they are unlisted (UN) or do not own a landline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344297
Cover Image
Temporary Employment in Italy
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Dell’Aringa, Carlo; Leonardi, Marco - In: CESifo DICE Report 10 (2012) 1, pp. 55-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696775
Cover Image
The Effect of Performance Measurement Systems on Productive Performance : An Empirical Study of Italian Manufacturing Firms
Oh, Han Kyul; Johnson, Andrew L; Lucianetti, Lorenzo; … - 2015
overall, the Italian manufacturing industry exhibits decreasing returns-to-scale. Further, we find many mature firms in the … industry and that endogenous growth will likely lead to reduce productivity. We conclude that higher quality PMS positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132407
Cover Image
Small area estimation of labor productivity for the Italian manufacturing SME cross-classified by region, industry and size
Ferrante, M. R.; Trivisano, C.; Fabrizi, E. - 2013
comparisons in order to avoid the confounding effect of sectorial and firm size composition of a region's manufacturing industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535413
Cover Image
Skill upgrading, wage gap and international trade : firm-level evidence for Italian manufacturing firms
Iodice, Irene; Tomasi, Chiara - 2015
This paper aims at investigating the evolution of the employment and wage structure of Italian manufacturing firms in the early 2000s. The work analyzes whether skills and wage movements have been taken place between or within sectors, and within sector, between or within firms. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509105
Cover Image
What is a Workers’ Referendum for? Evidence from Italy
Carbonai, Davide; Drago, Carlo - 2014
In July 2007, the Prodi government and representatives of the three main Italian trade union confederations signed a landmark agreement on welfare and economic development. In October, in order to ratify or reject the agreement, the Italian labor movement organized a referendum, i.e. the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140854