In the last two decades a broad process of labour market reforms towards more flexible and liberal models has been taking place in Europe. For Central and Eastern European countries this evolution was an important dimension of the wider process of institutional change which accompanied their...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects on regional manufacturing productivity of various external factors that characterize the economic, social, and institutional environments to which they belong. We define and distinguish here between homogeneous and urban heterogeneous...

This paper provides empirical evidence of the link between technological change in different technology intensive sectors and overall income (and not simply earnings) inequality in some EU eastern and western countries. In a first step, skill-biased technological change hypothesis is tested...

The objective of this paper is to analyse theoretically and empirically the effects of sectoral homogeneity and urban heterogeneity on regional manufacturing “pure” productivity differentials. Hypotheses of the existence and co-existence of the two types of external effects are formulated...

The recent literature dealing with the determinants of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) has increasingly emphasised the importance of technological aspects, as both attractive factors and FDI-related technological transfer effects. Focusing on the second perspective, this paper explores the...

The recent literature dealing with the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increasingly emphasised the importance of technological aspects, as both attractive factors and FDI-related technological transfer effects. Focusing on the second perspective, this article explores the...

In this paper we analyse how labour market institutions and technology affect wage determination through rent sharing. To this aim we first extend the theoretical framework of Estevao and Tevlin (2003) to account for heterogeneity of labour (regular and non-regular workers). The predictions of...