A cura di Paola Casavola La ricerca si concentra su due porzioni del territorio regionale - i due angoli del Nord-Ovest e del Sud-Est - che si caratterizzano per la presenza diffusa di attività economiche (le filiere del vitivinicolo e dell’orticolo, tra quelle di punta per la...

In this paper we test for the effect of technological progress on the labour demand and relative earnings by skill in Italy from 1986 to 1990. We consider a large panel of firms, about 36,000: the data allow us to construct a proxy of the use of new technology by each firm. Our main conclusions...

The aim of this paper is to clarify the connection between types of firms and types of assumptions about the information structure. Building on the role of information structure, notions of the firm as an organisation have been put forward which suggest that the firm can assume an alternative...