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| Peri, Giovanni; Cunat, Alejandro. |
| The extremely large disparities in employment rates across Italian regions, and the bad performance of the Italian economy in terms of job creation in the 80´s and early 90´s make job creation a top-priority in the economic policy agenda. This paper uses data on employment from 784 Local Labor Systems (LLS´s) covering the whole Italian territory to analyze job creation and its covariates for the 1981-1996 period. Local agglomeration economies, in particular input-output linkages, social characteristics, in particular the crime rate, and infrastructure growth are found to be important determinants of employment growth across Italian LLS´s. Using these estimates and data relative to 1996, we assess the potential for job creation in the LLS´s for the next... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Local Agglomeration Economies; Employment Growth; Italian Regions; Labor and Human Capital; R0; R3; O1. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26385 |
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