Since the July 1993 agreement in Italy, the adoption of company agreements based on a link between compensation and company performance has spread, becoming quite significant a presence even at the local level, without, however, involving companies overall where collective bargaining takes...

The paper investigates empirically the impact that outsourcing strategies have on the labour productivity of firms embedded in a local production system characterized by idiosyncratic techno-economic and organizational features. A diachronic cross-section econometric model of the productivity...

The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by thick industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...

This paper is an empirical analysis of the interaction between the dynamics of demand, productivity and employment in nine industrial countries, viz. the United States, Canada, Japan, West Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium, from 1960-1990. Its theoretical...