Social networks and labor productivity in Europe: an empirical investigation

Di Guilmi, C; Clementi, F; Di Matteo, Tiziana; Gallegati, M

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Social networks and labor productivity in Europe: an empirical investigation

Date

2008

Authors

Di Guilmi, C

Clementi, F

Di Matteo, Tiziana

Gallegati, M

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

This paper uses firm-level data recorded in the Amadeus database to investigate the distribution of labour productivity in different European countries. We find that the upper tail of the empirical productivity distributions follows a decaying power-law,