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Labour, 1999

In this paper we analyse the impact of both the number of immigrants and their human capital on t... more In this paper we analyse the impact of both the number of immigrants and their human capital on the welfare of the host economy. We will show that in the presence of`social increasing returns' in human and physical capital accumulation, arising from a labour market characterized by a costly search and by randomness of the matching technology, immigrants' skill level may influence the investments in human capital of natives as well as the investments in physical capital. We will find that the immigrants' human capital interacts with social increasing returns making them stronger or weaker according to the level of immigrants' human capital relative to that of natives. If immigrants have a higher level of human capital, increasing returns are accelerated, while if immigrants' human capital is lower, increasing returns are weakened if not reversed. The consequence of this behaviour is that in the first case immigration has a positive impact on native welfare and there is a positive interrelation between the skills of natives, the skills of immigrants and the firms' level of physical capital. In the second case immigration may have a negative impact on the welfare of natives, on the skills of native workers and on the physical capital of firms.

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2931340 The aim of this paper is to investigate the ... more Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2931340
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Jacobian externalities stemmed from different technological sectors for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms’ innovation, measured, as the development of new patents, is a key factor behind the achievement of desired economic performances. Empirical literature usually deals with the integration between ecological efficiency and product value enhancement. The results of these studies lead to the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance.

In this work, we analyse the integration between more environmental goals in an original way, by applying different methodologies to compute technological proximity, based on the Mahalanobis approach. To this end, we use information from 240 large international firms, located in three economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe and we select their environmental and dirty patents from European Patent Office data.

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2913517 The aim of this paper is to investigate the ... more Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2913517
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of external research collaborations on the scientific performance of academic institutions. Data are derived from the international SCOPUS database. We consider the number of citations of publications to evaluate university performance in Russia. To this end, we develop a non-overlapping generations model to evidence the theoretical idea of research externalities between academic institutions. Moreover, we implement different empirical models to test for the effect of external scientific collaborations on the institutional research quality. The results confirm an important positive impact of co-authoring process.

Rivista Internazionale Di Scienze Sociali, 2010

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a... more ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition towards having a second child in Italy by using the Longitudinal Investigation on Italian Families (ILFI). By implementing a simple event-history model, we find a negative effect of women’s education on the transition rate towards a second child. This phenomenon might be attributed to the ‘partner’ effect: according to this effect women often live with partners with the same level of education. The empirical investigation supports this effect. In order to test for the robustness of our empirical results, we estimate a model where we also consider employment status and being a Catholic. The results confirm the negative effect of a partner’s education, while the negative effect of female education vanishes.

International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016

Empirica, 2016

ABSTRACT In this paper we investigate the patents role in the relationship between R&D ac... more ABSTRACT In this paper we investigate the patents role in the relationship between R&D activity, spillovers and employment at the firm level. A reduced form labour demand equation is estimated. R&D expenditures can account for both product and process innovation. The analysis is based upon a new dataset composed of 879 worldwide R&D-intensive manufacturing firms whose information has been collected for the period 2002-2010. We use data from all EU R&D investment scoreboards editions issued every year until 2011 by the JRC-IPTS (scoreboards). Since the innovation output of industrial strategy of every firm is the number of patents, the main contribution to the existing literature is to investigate also the impact of patents/R&D ratio and patents/Spillovers ratio on own employment level. The empirical results suggest a significant impact of R&D spillover effects on firms’ employment but the results are quite differentiated according to the spillover stock type and this may represent a relevant source of policy implications.

Brussels Economic Review, 2004

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the linkage between education and working hours, a... more The aim of the present paper is to investigate the linkage between education and working hours, assumed to be positive as suggested by econometric evidence (Coleman and Pencavel (1993), Costa (1998) and Card (1999)), by using a model à la Acemoglu (1994, 1996) with a labour market characterised by a costly search activity and a matching technology function, and where

Economia Internazionale International Economics, 1997

ABSTRACT In this paper we consider the Bhagwati and Srinivasan model (1971) which takes into acco... more ABSTRACT In this paper we consider the Bhagwati and Srinivasan model (1971) which takes into account the impact of wage differentials on production response and factor price equalization theorem. We modify it introducing the distinction between skilled and unskilled workers and the existence in each sector of a union which all the workers, skilled and unskilled, are members of. The most interesting result concerns the relationship between factor intensity and wage rewards: the main theorems of international trade do not hold if in the skilled (unskilled) labour intensive sector skilled (unskilled) workers have a greater power within the union compared to that of the unskilled (skilled) workers.

1. Introduzione Sebbene si possa obiettare che è ancora troppo presto per formulare un giudizio s... more 1. Introduzione Sebbene si possa obiettare che è ancora troppo presto per formulare un giudizio su alcune misure - in particolare quelle adottate dagli ultimi governi - per il fatto che esse ancora non hanno manifestato per intero i loro effetti, si è tuttavia, ritenuto procedere alla stesura delle presenti note, nella convinzione che, tranne che per imprevedibi- li cambiamenti,

Studi Economici, 2003

Orario di lavoro e salari di efficienza in un modello di sviluppo dualistico (di Antonio Garofalo... more Orario di lavoro e salari di efficienza in un modello di sviluppo dualistico (di Antonio Garofalo, Concetto Paolo Vinci) - ABSTRACT: The objective of the present paper is that of explaining some dynamic behaviour of the Ital-ian economy considered as a dualistic system, by using a theoretical scheme which although not completely suitable for interpreting short term economic situation may

Labour, 1999

Rivista Internazionale Di Scienze Sociali, 2010

International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016

Empirica, 2016

Brussels Economic Review, 2004

Economia Internazionale International Economics, 1997

Studi Economici, 2003

Resources Policy, 2019

The aim of this paper is that of contributing to existing literature on the relationship between ... more The aim of this paper is that of contributing to existing literature on the relationship between environmental innovation and productivity. Generally, environmental innovation (clean) has a lower return than non-environmental one (dirty) in the short run, because of higher compliance costs for regulations. However, the positive effects of policy-induced clean innovations on productivity will be observed in the medium-long run. Since we lack empirical studies on this topic in developing countries, we try to fill this gap for Russia country. Firstly, we investigate whether there is a complementary link or a crowding-out effect between dirty innovation and clean one. Secondly, we identify the extent to which this effect can be sensitive to type of environmental activity. In particular, the paper provides both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis, based upon an unbalanced dataset composed of 85 Russian regions for the period 2010-2015. In order to measure the clean innovation, we take into account both the share of organizations engaged in environmental innovations and share of organizations engaged in reducing CO2 'footprint' (total CO2 production), or engaged in reducing soil, water, noise, or air pollution, or engaged in recycling of waste, water and materials. The empirical results of a panel data model show that the impact of environmental innovations on Russian regions' productivity is positive. This finding could be important in terms of policy implications.