Tertiary education attainment of italian labour force, particularly in the manufacturing industry, shows empirically a … the main channel towards productivity, competitive success and firm size growth. The paper analyses empirically four …

productivity growth. This suggests that increasing the workforce�s level of educational attainment is crucial to overcome the … stagnation in productivity that has characterized the Italian economy since the mid-nineties. …

'entrepreneurial skills', in other words due to the lack of financial resources in the public sector significant contractual … (individuals and social outcomes) due to the investment in human capital (Berger e Leigh, 1989; Grossman, Kaestner, 1997; Buonanno … and the society, we expect to have more investment from both the public sector and the private enterprise. …

-institutional contexts, bring workers with higher skills to emigrate from certain areas, moving to others even within the national boundaries …