Research

Those who possess human capital are prepared to invest it in a firm, in exchange for decisionmaking rights and incentives, but often firms are not ready to concede them, according to Anna Grandori

Only when the going gets tough, the tough get going: political parties line up the best politicians in electoral constituencies where competition is most uncertain, rewarding loyalty with safe seats, according to research by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini

The time spent with young children has longterm effects on their performance at school and in the job market, observes Alessandra Casarico in a research on twenty countries

Arnaldo Camuffo analyses the reasons why the human capital of middle managers makes the difference to firm performance, but is not adequately compensated

Maristella Botticini explains why the choice, made by the Jews twenty centuries ago, of investing in human capital, continues to bear fruit today

The young labor law expert Antonio Aloisi studies the grey undefined area that sits between the figure of the employee and that of the independent contractor