<em>Subcontracting firms: profitability, productivity and regional Gap</em> - By making use of a 4000 firms database, this article is aimed to analyze the dynamics of division of labour among manufacturing firms during the ‘90s and to assess the impact that subcontracting has on manufacturing firms’...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"-->?Supplier firms selling intermediate inputs/goods to other producers operate and even proliferate in both developed and developing countries, especially after the considerable decline in vertical integration occurred within most industries in the last decades. In the past, most of the studies...

G<sc>iunta</sc> A., N<sc>ifo</sc> A. et S<sc>calera</sc> D. Subcontracting in Italian industry: labour division, firm growth and the North--South divide, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of subcontracting on Italian manufacturing firms' growth in the second half of the 1990s. The main...

Questo lavoro si inserisce all’interno di un percorso di ricerca (Giunta e Scalera, 2006, 2007) teso a studiare la natura della subfornitura dell’industria manifatturiera italiana, un ambito di ricerca in cui non sono frequenti analisi su campioni rappresentativi di imprese, quanto piuttosto...

Il lavoro ha per oggetto l’evoluzione del modello di divisione del lavoro fra le imprese nell’industria italiana negli anni ’90. Utilizziamo i dati della “Indagine sulle imprese manifatturiere” condotta periodicamente da Capitalia, che fanno riferimento rispettivamente ai trienni...

By making use of a 4000 firms database, this paper analyzes the dynamics of division of labour among Italian manufacturing firms during the '90s, and seeks to assess the impact that subcontracting has on manufacturing firms' growth. In particular, we investigate the relationship between labour...