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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"SECS-P/01 Economia politica"”.
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Business Clusters in Eastern Europe: Policy Analysis and Cluster Performance
Clusters have increasingly become an essential part of policy discourses at all levels, EU, national, regional, dealing with regional development, competitiveness, innovation, entrepreneurship, SMEs. These impressive efforts in promoting the concept of clusters on the policy-making arena have been …
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Non-Linear Pricing in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
This thesis is dedicated to the analysis of non-linear pricing in oligopoly. Non-linear pricing is a fairly predominant practice in most real markets, mostly characterized by some amount of competition. The sophistication of pricing practices has increased in the latest decades due to the …
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The firm. Techno-organizational changes, industrial relations and performances. An enquiry on Reggio Emilia local industrial system
… and economic performance (Black & Lynch 2001; Zwick 2004; Janod & Saint-Martin 2004; Huselid 1995; Huselid & Becker 1996; Cappelli & Neumark 2001), while the works aiming to capture the relations between economic performance and unions or industrial relations aspects are quite scant …
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Intangible resources and organization capital: measurement and economic evaluation
Intangible resources have raised the interests of scholars from different research areas due to their importance as crucial factors for firm performance; yet, contributions to this field still lack a theoretical framework. This research analyses the state-of-the-art results reached in the …
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Valutazione delle politiche di sviluppo locale: una comparazione internazionale
… con sempre maggiore evidenza il binomio fra politica di sviluppo locale e valutazione, che coinvolge i diversi livelli di governo. Il presente lavoro realizza un quadro delle politiche di sviluppo locale, partendo dal livello europeo fino ad arrivare al livello locale, ed una successiva …
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Rimesse e sviluppo locale nel sistema migratorio del Golfo Persico
The thesis concerns, from an economic and institutional point of view, the migration process in connection with development issues, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region. Adopting a south-south perspective of migration flows, which is focusing on migration from the Maghreb and Mashreq …
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The gender wage gap in developing and transition countries
The aim of my dissertation is to study the gender wage gap with a specific focus on developing and transition countries. In the first chapter I present the main existing theories proposed to analyse the gender wage gap and I review the empirical literature on the gender wage gap in developing and …
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Population ageing, longevity and migration: an overlapping generations approach
The silent demographic revolution characterizing the main industrialized countries is an unavoidable factor which has major economic, social, cultural and psychological implications. This thesis studies the main consequences of population ageing and the connections with the phenomenon of migration, …
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Essays on firm efficiency with imperfectly competitive input markets: an empirical analysis
In the thesis I exploit an empirical analysis on firm'�s productivity. I relate the efficiency at plant level with the input market features and I suggest an estimation technique for production function that takes into account firm'�s liquidity constraints. The main results are three. When I …
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International Investments Flows: The Role of Cultural Preferences and Migrants Networks
Foreign Direct Investments are the most complex form of internationalization. A large part of the recent international trade literature has focused on their determinants on the ground that they spur growth and have a positive impact on development. This thesis examines FDI along two different and …
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Multidimensional Development and Inequality in China. The effects of the reforms after Deng Xiaoping
… of Chinese individuals between 1989 and 2011. These three dimensions are analyzed separately (dashboard approach) through similar techniques, to preserve the possibility to compare the results of different dimensions. The inequalities observed in the three variables are measured with the …
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ON THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON HOST COUNTRIES
Starting from the consolidated literature on the labour market effects of immigration (summarized in the second chapter in what follows) the aims of this work are: (i) to assess the impact of skilled immigration on income in destination countries (chapter 3) and (ii) to understand the relation …
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