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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385405
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320993
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Does Social Capital Create Trust? Evidence from a Community of Entrepreneurs
Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008020
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Marginal Intra-industry Trade and Adjustment Costs in Labour Market
Leitão, Nuno Carlos; Dima, Bogdan; Dima (Cristea) Stefana - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The objective of this study is to provide some empirical evidences on the existence of labor market adjustments according to smooth adjustment hypothesis (SAH) under the impact of intra-industry trade (IIT) considering the Portuguese case over a time span between 1995 and 2006. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904901
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
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