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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP1697
	DP1697 Inventories, Production Smoothing and the Shape of the Cost Function
	Luigi Guiso; Fabio Schiantarelli; Marzio Galeotti; Brian Sack
发表日期	1997-10-31
出版年	1997
语种	英语
摘要	This paper documents the existence of striking regional differences in the reported behaviour of employees working within the same firm, but in different Italian regions. In particular, the frequency of recorded and punished misconduct episodes is significantly higher among employees working in the south; migrants moving from the north to the south assimilate completely to the higher rate of misconduct in the receiving region, while migrants moving from the south to the north assimilate only partially to the lower misconduct rate in the receiving region. These differences can, in principle, be attributed to discrimination or to individual effort. The absence of any evidence of regional discrimination in the process by which misconduct episodes are signalled and brought to the attention of the personnel office, and in terms of careers and earnings, suggests that the second explanation is more likely to be true. This conclusion is also supported by the evidence on absenteeism that replicates the findings on misconduct. While the main contribution of this paper is to measure, in a novel way, regional productivity differentials due to individual effort, it does not explore the ultimate causes of these differentials (e.g. individual characteristics or multiple equilibria), a crucial issue that will be addressed in a forthcoming companion paper.
主题	International Macroeconomics
关键词	Discrimination Illegal behaviour Individual productivity
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp1697
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/530840
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Luigi Guiso,Fabio Schiantarelli,Marzio Galeotti,et al. DP1697 Inventories, Production Smoothing and the Shape of the Cost Function. 1997.