the population has long been far lower in Italy (12 percent in 2007) that in the rest of Europe (24 percent). The 32 … share of university graduates at local level is positively associated with restructuring activities and with productivity … in productivity that has characterized the Italian economy since the mid-nineties …

We analyse the geographic localization and the productivity of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Italy … where they attain significantly higher labour productivity levels. Urban productivity advantages are found to be strongly … relevant. On the whole, the set of explanatory factors considered could explain the entire urban productivity premium estimated …

This paper investigates the contribution of allocative efficiency to aggregate labor productivity growth in Italy … efficiency accounted for 35 per cent of aggregate productivity in 2005 and its weight increased by almost 7 percentage points … during the period of observation. We show that the dynamics of aggregate labor productivity benefited from the reallocation …

competition in the sector)?; iii) which are the main determinants of LPEs' performance in terms of productivity? The main findings …

in Italy. We use as a benchmark the influential measure proposed by the OECD (Adalet McGowan et al. 2017a and 2017b …

più lungo periodo sia nelle produzioni tipiche del Made in Italy (tessile e calzature), sia in quelle caratterizzate da … productivity gains and the loss of international competitiveness to the difficulties of our industries to adapt to changes in the …

recent Bank of Italy survey. There are still substantial differences across Italy's regions, and the level of efficiency is …

the dynamics of labor productivity (value added per worker, a synthetic measure of capital deepening, labor quality and … total factor productivity) and of employment. We find that the ongoing slowdown in EMEs is largely structural, but there is …-sector productivity improvements. The scope for further reform and reform priorities differs across countries. In the longer run other …

The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop … drop in participation in the South (the discouragement effect). The results of the Bank of Italy's Survey of Industrial and …