The COVID-19 crisis has hit Italy severely: by mid-2020, GDP had returned to the level observed in 1993. This is the …. In Italy, to return to a path of sustainable growth, implementing reforms aimed at creating a business … documenting Italy's delays in innovation and education, we discuss their interrelation with the structure of the productive system …

OECD’s policy advice to the specific and timely priorities of Italy, focusing on how its government can make reform happen. …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993 …-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on … domestic performances: productivity gaps between foreign and domestic firms, and productivity levels of MNEs. It is shown that …

We analyse the determinants of ICT investment and the impact of information technology on productivity and efficiency … firms on a series of intermediate variables and on productivity. Among intermediate variables we consider the demand for … skilled workers, the introduction of new products and processes and the rate of capacity utilisation. Among productivity …