The present study examines cross-national and sectoral differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in fourteen European countries and ten sectors from 1995 to 2007. The main aim is to ascertain the role of employment protection of temporary contracts on TFP by estimating their effects with a...

Liberalisation of temporary contracts has become an important component of recent labour reforms but up to now available research has not paid attention to the impacts of these institutional changes on functional income distribution. The present paper intends to fill this gap by focussing on the...

Purpose: This paper examines two institutional aspects closely related: (i) the extent to which collective bargaining has been decentralized at firm or district level; (ii) the extent to which, at this level of bargaining, Performance Related Pay (PRP) have been used....

In this paper we investigate the influence of education of entrepreneurs, as signal of talent, on the adoption of contingent pay (CP) schemes in Italian manufacturing and service firms, an aspect so far not examined in related literature. We use data of Employer and Employee Survey (EES) for the...

This paper examines the main determinants of the adoption of performance-related pay (PRP) in Italy. The analysis is performed by merging cross-sectional information on the spread of PRP collected for 2005 by the ISFOL survey with balance sheet data, provided by the AIDA database for a panel of...

Purpose – This study analyses the effects on productivity of Performance-Related Payments (PRP) and unions, and examines to what extent heterogeneity between firms characterises these influences. Design - For the Italian economy, the study presents firm-level quantile regressions for Total...

The literature aimed at exploring labor regulation and cross-country comparisons has left partly unexplored two major points: the first is the influence of employees within managerial processes, through the channel of employee representation at firm level. The second point concerns potential...

The dynamic general equilibrium model with hiring costs presented in this paper delivers involuntary unemployment in the steady state and involuntary fluctuations in unemployment. After calibrating the model, through simulations we are able to show that our model with labour market imperfections...

Nel lavoro che si presenta si confrontano, seppure a grandi linee, gli sviluppi del tema della ‘vecchia’ e ‘nuova’ governance’, a partire dalla distinzione posta originariamente da Berle e Means tra proprietà e controllo, fino a quella recente tra proprietà e ‘accesso’ emersa nei...

La letteratura teorica ed empirica sul tema della corporate governance trova i presupposti in due principali filoni di indagine: quello dell’impresa, vista al suo interno, ed individuata come rapporto di agenzia, una diretta filiazione del contributo di Berle e Means, e quello dell’impresa...