CONTI , Maurizio

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In this paper the evolution of labour productivity and TFP is analysed for the Italian regions at the sector level over the period 1980-2004 using growth accounting techniques. The results suggest that the decline in productivity after 1995 has been widespread across sectors and regions, although in southern Italy the decline has been weaker;...

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We use a difference in difference estimation framework to analyse the effects of the adoption of the euro on the level of per capita GDP for a sample of seventeen European countries (the EU15 plus Norway and Iceland) over the period 1990–2010. We find that the adoption of the euro may have raised the level of per capita GDP (and labour...

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Using data for 51 manufacturing and service sectors for the period 1970-2005 in 14 EU countries, this paper shows that employment protection legislation has a negative effect on value added growth in more human capital intensive sectors, especially in the case of countries near the technology frontier and after the 1990s. We interpret these...

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WORKING PAPERS, UNIVERSITà DI TORINO, 13.

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This work investigates how fertility rates of working women have been influenced by employer characteristics (public versus private sector and small versus large firms) and features of the employment contracts using a representative sample of Italian working women in the last 30 years of the twentieth century. In particular, we find that women...

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In this paper we estimate a variable cost function to analyze cost economies and technical change in the English water only sector over the 1995-2005 period. We jointly model the impact on costs of output, customers numbers and area size which allows us to consider both the vertical and horizontal (spatial) dimensions of water utilities'...

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In this study we estimate a variable cost function on a panel of English and Welsh Water and Sewerage companies, observed over two full regulatory periods (1995–2004). The main aim of the paper is to investigate the presence of a ratchet effect in the cost cutting activity associated with the price cap regulatory regime. By applying the...