Italian Abstract: Downloadable document is inQuesto lavoro presenta in un quadro unitario i risultati delle ricerche di recente svolte in Banca d’Italia sul tema dell’internazionalizzazione del nostro sistema produttivo. L’internazionalizzazione è vista non solo come un investimento...

Tertiary education attainment of italian labour force, particularly in the manufacturing industry, shows empirically a large gap with respect to the other OECD countries, although human capital growth has been increasingly addressed as one of the main channel towards productivity, competitive...

The aim of this working paper is to analyse the best practices of a sample of manufacturing firms that have carried out lasting best performance in terms of solvency, growth and profitability. Firstly, the paper analyses the factors that have favoured or hindered best performance, that is: size;...

This paper empirically investigates gross job flows and the growth patterns of continuing limited liability companies in Italy over the period 1996-2004, using original data on work forces and other characteristics of the firm. The descriptive analysis reveals that the magnitude of gross job...