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Small area estimation of labor productivity for the Italian manufacturing SME cross-classified by region, industry and size
Ferrante, M. R.; Trivisano, C.; Fabrizi, E. - 2013
be that, for Italy, the North-South divide in productivity levels is more apparent in capital and knowledge intensive …
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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships
Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2019
have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand access or improve training quality. Subsidized … provide general skill training. This paper analyzes the impact of subsidized dual apprenticeships combining on-the-job and … theoretical training in Côte d'Ivoire. We set up an experiment that simultaneously randomized whether interested youths were …
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Determinants of technological innovation in SMEs : firm-level factors, agglomeration economies and the role of KIBS providers
Ganau, Roberto; Di Maria, Eleonora - 2014
The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the business literature. However, only few contributions have proposed a comprehensive framework able to bring together different but not mutually exclusive research approaches. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492075
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Innovation adoption and training activities in SMEs
Antonioli, Davide; Della Torre, Edoardo - In: The international journal of human resource management 27 (2016) 3/4, pp. 311-337
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level : the case of Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - 2009
show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher … system and the lagged demographic structure. -- Firm ; local human capital externalities ; Italy ; manufacturing ; wages …
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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386017
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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734246
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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
Brunello, Giorgio - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050610
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Regional dispersion of cooperation activities as success factor of innovation oriented SME
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Pfeil, Silko; Kaps, Katharina - 2011
In this paper, we analyze the relationships between different types of innovation and collaboration, given the varying geographical distance of the latter. The study is based on the data of the research project 'KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks',...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307490
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SME's cluster identification in Russia
Barinova, Vera; Zemtsov, Stepan - 2015
Russia inherited pattern of economic activity location from the Soviet Union, where the main forms of industry organization were territorial-production complexes (TPC) - networks of industrial organizations united by a single technological process or the chain of raw materials processing. In a...
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