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Gender Issue and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and North Africa
Minoia, Giulia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender … relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international … reach an improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management. Therefore, to investigate gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385481
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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640989
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Do Competition and Ownership Matter? Evidence from Local Public Transport in Europe
Nicolini, Marcella; Boitani, Andrea; Scarpa, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489583
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Trade Complexity and Productivity
Békés, Gabor; Altomonte, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We exploit a panel dataset of Hungarian firms merged with product-level trade data for the period 1992-2003 to investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self-selection effects of the most productive firms induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987236
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From Outsourcing to Productivity, Passing Through Training: Microeconometric Evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747057
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of many techno organisational innovation and networking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230829
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Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firm’s Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
Aim of this paper is to study whether and how the firm’s decision to outsource production activities affects its technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm’s governance strategy and the underlying attributes of the transactions affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230856
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The Determinants of Suppliers’ Performance in E-Procurement: Evidence from the Italian Government’s E-Procurement Platform
Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
Participation of small businesses in the market for public contracts is widely recognized as a key policy issue. It is also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end, we analyze the transactions completed in the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230899
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904925
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Gender Differences in Output Quality and Quantity under Competition and Time Constraints: Evidence from a Pilot Study
Shurchkov, Olga - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Gender gaps in income and level of position in the workplace are widespread. One explanation for this inequality is … significant gender gap in competitive tasks that are perceived to favor men. In this paper, we use a verbal task that is perceived … to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502093