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Italian Manufacturing. The latter represents an interesting case study due to the prevalence of small family business and a … show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher …
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Italian Manufacturing. The latter represents an interesting case study due to the prevalence of small family business and a … show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514858
(increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …
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We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing …
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Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …
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School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different reasons than quality considerations. On the other side, by exploiting individual data on voucher...
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levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …
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volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The …
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This paper addresses the problem of the dualism of the Italian economy, particularly of its labor market. Although the Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North, which represents two thirds of the whole economy, is...
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opportunities. It examines Italy's experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range …
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