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Differenziali territoriali nella fornitura di servizi pubblici comunali di refezione e mensa scolastica - rapporto preliminare di ricerca
No full text“Relazioni fra dinamiche del lavoro e caratteristiche dell’organizzazione e della presenza sindacale”
No full textL’analisi dell’efficienza nella sperimentazione di una metodologia per valutare le organizzazioni di volontariato
No full textL’analisi dell’efficienza nella sperimentazione di una metodologia per valutare le organizzazioni di volontariato
No full textInvestment, innovation activities and employment across European regions
No full textThis study examines the effect of various forms of investment expenditure (gross fixed capital formation, R&D and European Structural and Investment Funds) on employment across NUTS2 European regions from 2000 to 2016. We find that the effect of R&D is heavily conditional upon regional characteristics. Only in NUTS2 regions with medium to high levels of innovation is R&D likely to generate employment. Gross fixed capital formation is labour friendly, but less so in highly innovative regions. Accordingly, the more that European regions shift closer to the world's technology frontier, the more that R&D expenditure, rather than investment in physical assets, will be capable of generating positive employment externalities. Amongst European Structural and Investment Funds, we find an especially significant effect for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (in the more developed regions) and the Cohesion Fund
STRUTTURA DELLA CONTRATTAZIONE, DIFFERENZIALI SALARIALI E OCCUPAZIONE IN AMBITI REGIONALI
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Electoral rule and public sector efficiency: Some evidence from Italian municipalities
No full textWe study the effect of Law 81/1993, which introduced a different rule for the election of mayors, on the technical efficiency of Italian cities over the period 1998-2006. Since 1993, municipalities below 15,000 inhabitants vote with a single-ballot system, whereas cities above 15,000 inhabitants are subject to a double ballot. We first estimate the output-oriented technical efficiency of municipalities through data envelopment analysis, and then we perform a regression discontinuity design analysis by exploiting the exogenous change in the electoral scheme at the 15,000 inhabitants cut-off. We find evidence that municipalities voting under a double-ballot rule show lower levels of efficiency-in terms of provision of public goods-compared with cities voting under a single-ballot scheme, by about 6.5%. This effect is driven by inefficiencies registered in specific sectors, that is, police, education, and maintenance of roads. Furthermore, the overall lower efficiency of municipalities voting under runoff is related to the different level of educational attainment of elected mayors, whereas it is not driven by the features of Law 81/1993 relating to the number of lists forming a coalition in support of mayoral candidates and to disjoint votes
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