Using a data-set of OECD countries from 1980 to 2004, we assess the crosscountry evidence on the trade-off between wage inequality and employment performance by relying on Data Envelopment Analysis, a nonparametric technique ...

We study the effect of Law 81/1993, which introduced a different electoral rule for the election of the mayor, on the technical efficiency of Italian cities. Since 1993, municipalities below 15,000 inhabitants vote with a ...