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Impresa sociale e sviluppo economico locale
No full textIl contributo analizza il ruolo dell'impresa sociale come agente per lo sviluppo locale. Dopo un'introduzione sulle caratteristiche dell'impresa sociale, il secondo paragrafo introduce il concetto di sviluppo locale più idoneo a definire il ruolo attivo delle imprese sociali, mentre il terzo paragrafo si occupa di delineare le principali conseguenze della presenza delle imprese sociali nei processi di sviluppo locale. Prima delle riflessioni conclusive, il quarto paragrafo indica alcune possibili direzioni da seguire per la politica economica che riguarda le imprese sociali
Innovazioni organizzative, risorse umane e relazioni industriali: problemi aperti e risultati dell’indagine
No full textInnovazioni organizzative, risorse umane e relazioni industriali: problemi aperti e risultati dell’indagin
Innovazioni organizzative, risorse umane e relazioni industriali nelle imprese alimentari dell’Emilia-Romagna
No full textInnovazioni organizzative, risorse umane e relazioni industriali nelle imprese alimentari dell’Emilia-Romagn
Incentives, job satisfaction and performance: empirical evidence in Italian social enterprises
No full textIncentives, job satisfaction, performance, rating scale models, econometric model
Productivity, wages and intrinsic motivations
No full textThere is a long-standing debate in labour economics on the impact of workers’ intrinsic motivations on equilibrium wages. One direction in economic theory suggests that intrinsically motivated workers are willing to accept lower wages and‘‘donate’’ work, for example, in terms of unpaid overtime (the donative-labour hypothesis). In the other direction, intrinsic motivations are expected to increase worker productivity and, in turn, wages (the intrinsic motivation-productivity hypothesis). Using a new database of a sample of workers in the cooperative non-profit sector, we find that, consistently with the motivation-productivity hypothesis, more motivated workers earn significantly higher wages, which signals higher productivity. Evidence supporting the donative labour hypothesis is weaker, even though a generally positive connection between motivations and workdonation is confirmed. We interpret these findings by arguing that the impact of the donative-labour effect is dominated by the intrinsic motivation-productivity effect
Employer moral hazard and wage rigidity
No full textThe standard explanation of wage rigidity in principal agent and in efficiency wage models is
related to worker risk-aversion. However, these explanations do not consider at least two important
classes of empirical evidence: (1) In worker cooperatives workers appear to behave in a less risk
averse way than in for profit firms and to accept fluctuating wages; (2) The emerging experimental
evidence on the employment contract shows that most workers prefer higher but more uncertain
wages to lower fixed wages. Workers do not appear to express a preference for fixed wages in all
situations and different ownership forms, in our case worker cooperatives and for-profit firms,
behave in different ways when dealing with the trade-off between wage rigidity and employment
fluctuations. More specifically, worker cooperatives are characterized, in relative terms, by fixed
employment levels and fluctuating wages, while for-profit firms are characterized by fixed wages
and fluctuating employment.
Our paper reinterprets these stylized facts by focusing on the relationship between wage
rigidity and worker risk aversion in light of the presence of employer post contractual opportunism.
Contractual incompleteness and private information on the side of the employer can compound in
favouring the pursuit of the employer’s objectives, when they diverge from the employee’s ones.
The idea of employer moral hazard is able to disentangle the observed behavioural differences in
different ownership forms. By resorting to the standard efficiency wage framework, we show that,
in the presence of employer moral hazard, employees in capitalistic firms generally prefer fixed
wage, accepting this way a positive risk of lay-off. On the contrary, one of the main functions of
fluctuating wages in worker cooperatives is to minimize the risk of lay-off
Struttura dell’occupazione e mercati interni del lavoro
No full textAnalisi dei mercati interni del lavoro in un campione di imprese manifatturiere della provincia di Reggio Emili
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