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Why Isn't Uber Worker-Managed? A Model of Digital Platform Cooperatives
Belloc, Filippo - 2019
Thanks to algorithmic management, the digital platform sector does not require sophisticated governance structures and labour intensity tends to be higher than in traditional sectors. So, why aren’t usually digital labour platforms worker cooperatives? We develop a simple model to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866809
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Railways and the Productivity Gap in Italy: Persistence and Divergence after Unification
Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307101
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Equity, Commodity, and Distillate Risk for Oil Upstream Producers and Downstream Consumers
Carson, Scott Alan - 2023
The oil and gas industry's role in economic activity is hard to overstate. This study considers upstream, midstream, and downstream oil producer returns and risk compared to downstream oil consumers in airlines, ground-freight, railroads, and tire manufacturing. Between 2000 and 2020, the oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377401
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Striking Evidence: The Impact of Railway Strikes on Competition from Intercity Bus Services in Germany
Beestermöller, Matthias; Jessen-Thiesen, Levke; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377457
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Equity, Commodity, and Distillate Risk for Oil Upstream Producers and Downstream Consumers
Carson, Scott Alan - 2023
The oil and gas industry’s role in economic activity is hard to overstate. This study considers upstream, midstream, and downstream oil producer returns and risk compared to downstream oil consumers in airlines, ground-freight, railroads, and tire manufacturing. Between 2000 and 2020, the oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356484
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Striking Evidence : The Impact of Railway Strikes on Competition from Intercity Bus Services in Germany
Beestermöller, Matthias; Jessen-Thiesen, Levke; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347994
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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2008
We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264353
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Organized crime and foreign direct investment: the Italian case
Daniele, Vittorio; Marani, Ugo - 2008
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using different estimation methods for panel data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264452
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On the many ways Europeanization matters: the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2009
to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266013
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Kind of Black : the musicians' labour market in Italy
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2009
It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a … musicians and discourages talented agents from becoming full-time musicians in all second-best economies. In Italy both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270601