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Traditional Industrial Districts in the Face of Globalization : The Case of the Marche Footwear District

Cutrini, Eleonora - 2013

-quality range of goods, including outsourcing abroad. This study shows that firms which focused on quality did better than others …

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The performance of Italian Industrial Districts in and out of the 2008-2012 crisis

Di Giacinto, Valter; Sechi, Andrea; Tosoni, Alessandro - 2023

By exploiting firm level balance sheet data from the Cerved database and employment data from the INPS database, we provide a detailed description of the productivity performance of Italian industrial districts firms over the 2003-2017 period. The main structural features of industrial districts...

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A Tale of Two Bazaar Economies : An Input-Output Analysis for Germany and Italy

Breda, Emanuele; Cappariello, Rita - 2011

This paper evaluates the extent of internationalisation of production between 1995 and 2006 for Italy and Germany. The … analysis is based on a large set of indicators of international outsourcing including a new one, the direct and indirect import … international off-shoring was quite similar in the two countries, although slightly higher for Italian firms when only manufacturing …

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Quality Differentials in Italian Universities' Freshmen : The Case of Medical and Dental Surgery Schools

Sestito, Paolo; Tonello, Marco - 2011

The paper compares the quality of Italian Medical schools’ freshmen on the basis of the scores obtained in the locally conducted entry exams which are using a common national test frame. The test is quite selective (partly because of the reduced size of the intake yearly allowed): winners are...

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Italian Households and Labour Market : Structural Characteristics and Effects of the Crisis

Mocetti, Sauro; Olivieri, Elisabetta; Viviano, Eliana - 2011

individual level. With respect to the main European countries, in Italy the jobless household rate is lower because of the larger …

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Infrastructure and Project Financing in Italy : The (Possible) Role of the Regulation

Giorgiantonio, Cristina; Giovanniello, Valentina - 2010

, benefiting the implementation of infrastructure projects. In Italy, project financing is still much more limited than in such …

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Economic Developments in the Italian Regions in 2005

Cannari, Luigi - 2007

The Economy of the Italian Regions in the year 2005 analyzes the evolution of production, labour market, financial aggregates and regional public finances in the four main Italian territorial areas. Topics analyzed focus on structural change in the Italian economy; trends in Mezzogiorno's...

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Parental Time and Child Outcomes : Does Gender Matter?

Del Boca, Daniela; Mancini, Anna Laura - 2013

Using different econometric specifications this paper analyzes the relationship between the time parents spend with their children, child-related expenditure and the results obtained by them, with particular attention to gender differences. The authors use PSID-CDS data from 1997 to 2007 and...

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Gender Complementarities in the Labor Market

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - 2013

In this paper we estimate the short-run elasticity of substitution between male and female workers, using data on employment and wages from Italian provinces from 1993-2006. We adopt a production function approach similar to that of Card and Lemieux (2001a) and Acemoglu, Autor and Lyle (2004)....

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Home or Away? Gender Differences in the Effects of an Expansion of Tertiary Education Supply

Rizzica, Lucia - 2013

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the expansion of tertiary education supply on the educational choices of young Italian high school graduates. A quasi-experimental setting given by the reform of the tertiary education system implemented in 2001 is exploited. The reform was...

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