growth. Also for France we find a positive effect on productivity and the size of domestic activity, although not as robust … countries. In Italy they enhance the efficiency of home activities, with also positive long term effect on output and employment … trickle down on productivity at home …

outward investments to LDCs. In Italy they have a positive long term effect on value added and employment. For France we find …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

overall productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it … productivity losses. We estimate substitution elasticities across various types of temporary contracts that are consistent with … this interpretation. -- employment contracts ; productivity ; institutional changes …

productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favour of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …. -- employment contracts ; productivity ; institutional changes …