Functional specialisation and income distribution along global value chains

F Riccio, G Dosi, ME Virgillito - Economic Systems Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses two questions: first, the extent to which the participation in Global
Value Chains (GVCs) has penalised labour as a globally insourced production input, and …

Italy and the trap of GVC downgrading: labour dependence in the European geography of production

L Cresti, G Dosi, F Riccio, ME Virgillito - Italian Economic Journal, 2023 - Springer
How does Italy position inside the European structure of trade relationships? How labour
bilateral flows have changed over time? Which type of employment activity has been …

Attributes and trends of rentified capitalism

G Dosi, L Fanti, ME Virgillito - Italian Economic Journal, 2024 - Springer
What is rentified capitalism? And, how can we characterise its unfolding into the socio-
economic sphere? This paper theoretically and empirically defines attributes and trends of …

Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a new taxonomy based on employment multipliers

L Cresti, ME Virgillito - Available at SSRN 4215798, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In this paper we propose a novel sectoral taxonomy integrating three different attributes of
sectors, namely i) the strategic dimension reflected into their belonging to different classes of …

Weak sectors and weak ties? Labour dependence and asymmetric positioning in GVCs

L Cresti, ME Virgillito - 2023 - econstor.eu
Focusing on labour requirements incorporated into GVCs, in the following, we develop a
novel, non conventional measure of learning capabilities, represented by knowledge …

Smile without a reason why: functional specialisation and income distribution along global value chains

F Riccio, G Dosi, ME Virgillito - 2023 - econstor.eu
This paper addresses two questions namely, first, the extent to which the very participation in
Global Value Chains (GVCs) has penalised labour as a globally insourced production input …

Distributive Profiles Associated with Domestic versus International Specialization in Global Value Chains

AL Wirkierman - International Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present article sets out trends in functional income distribution implied by countries'
integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs), taking also into account interregional …

[PDF][PDF] Smile without a reason why: Functional specialization and income distribution in global value chains

F Riccio, ME Virgillito - 2023 - iioa.org
This paper investigates the relationship between labour share fall and Global Value Chains
(GVCs) rise focusing on the impact of international functional specialization. We combine …

Vertical integration and patterns of divergence in European industries: A long-term input-output analysis

F Ascione, ME Virgillito - 2023 - econstor.eu
Against a theoretical background which recognizes the gains from trade liberalization, this
paper asks whether, and if so to what extent, economic integration as directly measured …

A North-South agent based model of segmented labour markets: The role of education and trade asymmetries

L Fanti, MC Pereira, ME Virgillito - 2023 - econstor.eu
Drawing on the labour-augmented K+ S agent-based model, this paper develops a two-
country North-South ABM wherein the leader and the laggard country interact through the …