Showing papers by "Margherita Scarlato published in 2015"
TL;DR: D'Agostino et al. as discussed by the authors carried out an explanatory investigation into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions, concluding that policies targeting the enhancement of local socio-institutional conditions have major repercussions for the innovation capacity and economic development of the lagging southern regions.
Abstract: D'Agostino G. and Scarlato M. Innovation, socio-institutional conditions and economic growth in the Italian regions, Regional Studies. An explanatory investigation is carried out into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions. A three-sector semi-endogenous growth model with negative externalities related to the social and institutional variables affecting the innovative capacity of regional economic systems is constructed. The empirical investigation confirms the presence of non-linearities that depend on the socio-institutional conditions constituting constraints on the translation of innovation into economic growth. The paper suggests that policies targeting the enhancement of local socio-institutional conditions have major repercussions for the innovation capacity and economic growth of the lagging southern regions.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the effects of the Italian labour market reforms which began in 2001 and which led to widespread deployment of temporary work contracts and find a small positive effect on job creation, imputed to the reforms.
Abstract: In this paper, we assess the effects of the Italian labour market reforms which began in 2001 and which led to widespread deployment of temporary work contracts. Using a hitherto unexploited administrative dataset of work histories for the period 2003-2010, we estimate transition probabilities in the states of non-employment and employment and find a small positive effect on job creation, imputed to the reforms. Estimates also indicate a large increase in transitions to temporary contracts, which offset the reduction in permanent employment flows, although transition probabilities for men and women explain little heterogeneity. While we do find a substitution effect of the reforms on the transition between temporary and permanent contracts, the increased probability of being employed in temporary jobs mostly involved young people and workers in the depressed areas of the south of Italy.
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