This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort …'s constrained credit status changes with the improvement of its efficiency. The results further reveal that financially constrained … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be …

Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes … in the international division of labour occurred. Italy represents an interesting case study because of the high degree …

fundamental approaches to estimation: a "long run" model, consisting of OLS intergenerational type regressions for the reading …

and the extent of workers reallocation. This paper aims to test different theoretical hypotheses in the case of Italy by …

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …