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Exchange rate misalignments and crises
Stein, Jerome L.; Paladino, Giovanna - 1999
changes in France, Germany and Italy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781700
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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295798
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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010
We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. A high share of temporary - thus un-experienced - workers is associated to low innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985881
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Temporary employment, job flows and productivity : a tale of two reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Leonardi, Marco - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230787
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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries
Daveri, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688930