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Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis
Cerqua, Augusto; Letta, Marco - 2021
-hit countries, Italy. We combine quarterly local labor market data with the new machine learning control method for counterfactual …
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Flexible work organization and employer provided training : evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018
likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that … employees are more likely to receive training when their jobs are characterized by greater decision-making autonomy and task … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply …
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Should I train or should I go? : human resources, human capital, turnover and service quality
Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024
Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...
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Economic vulnerabilities in Italy : a network analysis using similarities in sectoral employment
Castagna, Alina; Chentouf, Leila; Ernst, Ekkehard - 2017
This article presents an original spatial methodology based on a network analysis approach in order to identify and to track spatial similarities among economic activities as well as to analyse their interdependence. Traditionally, such interdependence is analysed using input-output matrices...
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Local secessions, homophily, and growth : a model with some evidence from the regions of Abruzzo and Molise (Italy, 1963)
Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido; Poy, Samuele - 2017
This paper analyses the case of a local secession, i.e. the birth of a new local jurisdiction by separation from an existing one. We present a stylized model in which society is composed of heterogeneous groups and individuals have an homophily bias. The model predicts that: i) separations, such...
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Peer interactions, local markets, and wages : evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Irene; Intraligi, Valerio; Ricci, Andrea; … - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between the spatial distribution of occupations with a high content of peer interactions and wages among Italian provinces. At this aim, we use a unique employer-employee dataset obtained by merging administrative data on wages and labor market histories...
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The births of new private-owned enterprises in an environment of state-owned enterprises
Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306821
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Employment protection and firm-provided training : quasi-experimental evidence from a labour market reform
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019
than 15 employees in Italy. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below … potentially adverse effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on training in dual labour markets due to larger firms …
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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates : the role of personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022
It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as relevant as cognitive abilities. In spite of this growing interest in the labour market consequences of personality traits, the relationship between these and educational and...
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Stuck at a crossroads? : the duration of the Italian school-to-work transition
Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2020
) job in all European countries, especially in Mediterranean countries, including Italy. This paper aims to study the … determinants of this duration and measure them, for the first time in a systematic way, in the case of Italy. Design …
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