Stefano Scarpetta
Biographic Data
| ID | 5732396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Scarpetta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarpetta |
| SIGNATURE | SCARPETTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade of São Paulo OECD OECD and IZA Boston College and IZA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition: Promoting Resilience in a World in Flux
International audience
Development and Employment: A Mutual Relationship
Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper investigates the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. Exploiting harmonized firm-level data for a number of countries, we show that there is substantial and systematic cross-country variation in the within-industry covariance between size and productivity. We develop a model in which heterogeneous firms face adjustment frictions (overhead labor and quasi-fixed capital) and distortions. The mode…
International Conference News: Labor Activation in a Time of High Unemployment: Lessons From Abroad
Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries. An overview of current approaches
This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of policy measures differs widely. While debates on the effectiveness of active labour market policies have tended to focus on individual policy measures, this …
Employment Effects of Product and Labour Market Reforms: Are there Synergies
This article investigates the effect of product market liberalisation on employment allowing for interactions between policies and institutions in product and labour markets. Using panel data for OECD countries over the period 19802002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when labour market regulation is high. The data also suggest that product market liberalisation may promote employment-enhancing…
Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms
Credit constraints as a barrier to the entry and post-entry growth of firms
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creative destruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping this process, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms’ decision to enter, to expand if successful and to exit if competition becomes unbearable. In this paper we focus on the effects of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successfu…
Regulation, productivity and growth: OECD evidence
Liberalization and privatization have made the regulatory environment more market-friendly throughout the OECD. However using a large new dataset on product market regulation, we show that regulatory policies in OECD nations have become more dissimilar in relative terms, even as all nations have liberalized. This seemingly contradictory finding is explained by different starting points and different reform speeds. Our data also show that this div…
Employment Effects of Product and Labour Market Reforms: Are there Synergies
This article investigates the effect of product market liberalisation on employment allowing for interactions between policies and institutions in product and labour markets. Using panel data for OECD countries over the period 19802002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when labour market regulation is high. The data also suggest that product market liberalisation may promote employment-enhancing…
Regulation, productivity and growth: OECD evidence
Liberalization and privatization have made the regulatory environment more market-friendly throughout the OECD. However using a large new dataset on product market regulation, we show that regulatory policies in OECD nations have become more dissimilar in relative terms, even as all nations have liberalized. This seemingly contradictory finding is explained by different starting points and different reform speeds. Our data also show that this div…
Credit constraints as a barrier to the entry and post-entry growth of firms
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creative destruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping this process, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms’ decision to enter, to expand if successful and to exit if competition becomes unbearable. In this paper we focus on the effects of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successfu…
Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms
Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries. An overview of current approaches
This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of policy measures differs widely. While debates on the effectiveness of active labour market policies have tended to focus on individual policy measures, this …
Employment Effects of Product and Labour Market Reforms: Are there Synergies
This article investigates the effect of product market liberalisation on employment allowing for interactions between policies and institutions in product and labour markets. Using panel data for OECD countries over the period 19802002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when labour market regulation is high. The data also suggest that product market liberalisation may promote employment-enhancing…
Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper investigates the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. Exploiting harmonized firm-level data for a number of countries, we show that there is substantial and systematic cross-country variation in the within-industry covariance between size and productivity. We develop a model in which heterogeneous firms face adjustment frictions (overhead labor and quasi-fixed capital) and distortions. The mode…
International Conference News: Labor Activation in a Time of High Unemployment: Lessons From Abroad
Development and Employment: A Mutual Relationship
Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition: Promoting Resilience in a World in Flux
International audience
Economics (9 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Barriers to entry (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works)