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Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Ottaviano, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Migration, Cultural Diversity and Innovation: A European Perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

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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...

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Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis

Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This work explores the effects of cross-border relocation of production on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms’ strategy to offshore production activities towards cheap labor countries determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled...

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...

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Are all High-Skilled Cohorts Created Equal? Unemployment, Gender, and Research Productivity

Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates’ research productivity. We...

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From Outsourcing to Productivity, Passing Through Training: Microeconometric Evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

find that outsourcing generates positive productivity effects only if it is part of a broader knowledge management strategy …

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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Leij, Marco J. van der; Buhai, I. Sebastian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We develop a social network model of occupational segregation between different social groups, generated by the existence of positive inbreeding bias among individuals from the same group. If network referrals are important for job search, then expected homophily in the contact network structure...

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Corruption and Political Interest: Empirical Evidence at the Micro Level

Torgler, Benno; Dong, Bin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The topic of corruption has recently attracted a great deal of attention, yet there is still a lack of micro level empirical evidence regarding the determinants of corruption. Furthermore, the present literature has not investigated the effects of political interest on corruption despite the...

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