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This paper analyzes the characteristics of Italian firms involved in global value chains (�intermediate� firms) by using the Bank of Italy survey on industrial companies. Intermediate firms show, on average, worse features than �final� firms: smaller size, lower share of...
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The progress, the growth and the development are concepts related to the intrinsic qualities of the existing productive factors, either in the regional or national perspective. Therefore, the theory of the human capital launches the idea that low levels of scholarship do not show great profits...
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In the last 15 years the Italian employment structure has undergone some radical changes. As a result, the proportion …-skilled employment. Thus, we do not observe a polarization pattern in the employment structure, but a massive occupational upgrading … towards high-skilled jobs. Furthermore, there is a positive correlation between changes in the employment and wage structures …
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The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop … caution, however. Firstly, employment trends as measured by Italian labour force survey may understate the decline in total … employment if, as seems plausible, a lag exists between the entry of immigrants into the country and their registration. Secondly …
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The survey aims to review the empirical literature about the impacts of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developed and developing countries, with a special emphasis on the Brazilian case. A general result is the change in the structure of the labor demand in favor of skilled workers....
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, the dynamic of the local employment, and level of intra-state heterogeneity. Descriptive and multivariate methods are used … to analyze data on employment and pn local diversity in the period 1995/2008 (data from RAIS/MTE and IBGE). The results … show that the most dynamic areas in terms of employment are also those with the highest degrees of centrality. Despite the …
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This paper uses meta-analysis to investigate job creation, job destruction, and job reallocation among 62 studies for 35 countries for the period 1963-2007. The analysis aimed to clarify some stylized facts from the literature about the topic such as the differences among industrial and service...
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This article examines the evolution of sectoral employment in Brazil between 1949 and 2010, using structural … productivity rose simultaneously with employment increases were defined as virtuous sectors. The only sectors that fit this …, simultaneous growth in employment and in labour productivity was not observed in any sector. …
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