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The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to universities, rather than to researchers, would...
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the relationship between life expectancy and education. …
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Students� competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual school�s effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in competencies over time, i.e. value-added measures. Using...
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sector. Firm-level evidence shows that the growth in graduate employment is due almost entirely to a �within� firm …
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The paper presents a growth accounting exercise for the Italian economy over the last twenty years to assess the role of primary inputs and total factor productivity. The exercise was run at both the aggregate and the disaggregated level. For the first time in Italy it used a measure of capital...
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In the last 15 years the Italian employment structure has undergone some radical changes. As a result, the proportion …-skilled employment. Thus, we do not observe a polarization pattern in the employment structure, but a massive occupational upgrading … towards high-skilled jobs. Furthermore, there is a positive correlation between changes in the employment and wage structures …
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The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop … caution, however. Firstly, employment trends as measured by Italian labour force survey may understate the decline in total … employment if, as seems plausible, a lag exists between the entry of immigrants into the country and their registration. Secondly …
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