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Crescita della produttivit?, progresso tecnico e impiego del lavoro nelle imprese manifatturiere italiane: 1996-2006

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  • Enrico Tundis
  • Enrico Zaninotto
  • Roberto Gabriele
  • Sandro Trento

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The article analyses the productivity dynamics of a sample of Italian manufacturing firms in the period 1996-2006. The first part computes Malmquist measures of productivity using non parametric techniques. Our measures show that the low rate of growth in productivity is due to the different models used to adapt to the changes in the competitive environment. Up to 2000, all the firms attempted to improve efficiency, whereas technical progress is absent. After 2000, there is evidence that a group of firms advance the technical frontier, while many firms lag behind and increase the frontier gap. The second part of the article correlates the observed measures of productivity to some characteristics of the employed labor. The hypothesis that productive performances could be put in relation to the two tiers of the labor markets resulting from the reforms adopted at the end of the century is supported. Highly productive firms use a higher share of skilled labor and fewer part-time workers. The reverse is true for less efficient firms. Jel classification:

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  • Enrico Tundis & Enrico Zaninotto & Roberto Gabriele & Sandro Trento, 2012. "Crescita della produttivit?, progresso tecnico e impiego del lavoro nelle imprese manifatturiere italiane: 1996-2006," ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2012(4), pages 25-61.
    • Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/poli2012-004002
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    1. A. Arrighetti & R. Brancati & A. Lasagni & A. Maresca, 2015. "Firms’ heterogeneity and performance in manufacturing during the great recession," Economics Department Working Papers 2015-EP03, Department of Economics, Parma University (Italy).

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    Keywords

    Produttivit? totale dei fattori; settore manifatturiero italiano; indice di Malmquist; DEA; mercato del lavoro stratificato;
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    JEL classification:

    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General

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