How can a manager influence workers' activity while knowing little about it? This paper examines a situation where production requires several tasks, and the manager wants to direct production to achieve a preferred allocation of effort across tasks. However, the effort that is required for each...

This paper is concerned with employment growth at sectoral and local level in Italy. With respect to previous literature, we introduce across regions spatial spillovers and an explicit econometric dynamic set-up to analyse the behaviour of the model through time. We find that a province's...