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Il contesto socio economico di riferimento: Sicilia ed Irlanda: quali le differenze?
2013
Da anni il Mezzogiorno appare come un territorio incapace di attrarre investimenti esteri in maniera consistente e continuativa, ciò soprattutto a causa della debolezza delle infrastrutture, ma anche per la presenza di industrie con una capacità di esportazione, che seppure in crescita negli ultimi anni risulta ancora limitata, in numero ancora insufficiente rispetto alle possibilità complessive e prevalentemente concentrate in settori tradizionali assai più esposti alla competizione di prezzo dei nuovi paesi concorrenti.
L’impatto delle migrazioni sul mercato del lavoro in Italia
2010
Labor Productivity and Okun’s law: An empirical application to Italian regional panel data
2012
Okun’s law, named for its proposer, Arthur Okun, was first applied during the 1960s in the USA to describe the relationship between economic growth and unemployment fluctuations. Several attempts were later made to test the empirical applicability of the relationship to different countries and historical periods. Heterogeneous results were generally found in estimating Okun’s coefficient, depending on the sample and context analysed. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the relevance of Okun’s law to Italian regions. We perform a panel analysis to estimate the influence of asymmetry and local market differences on Okun’s relationship. Moreover, observing particularly low values of part…
L'internazionalizzazione mercantile delle imprese manifatturiere emergenti: vincoli, opportunità, fabbisogni.
2006
A BoD Composite Indicator to Measure the Italian “Sole 24 Ore” Quality of Life
2023
The measure of Quality of Life (QoL) is still a topic widely discussed in literature. In Italy, the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore” publishes a famous ranking that highlights strong disparities among provinces. In this paper, “Il Sole 24 Ore” and BoD-DEA methods are compared in order to show how different types of normaliza- tion and aggregation significantly influence the results making these rankings very fragile and questionable.
Regional Disparities in Consumption Behaviour: Italian Households in Time of Crisis
2016
The relevant fact of the severe downturn due to the Great Recession is that declining consumer spending. The extent of the cutbacks in consumption expenditures differs among regions and also the distribution pattern across households differs. This paper examines how the 2008-9 crisis affected regional disparities in household consumption behaviour by analysing the distribution of the real total expenditure. Specifically, a mixture of regression models is used to explore the heterogeneity in total expenditure across regions and households by identifying groups of families with similar consumption behaviour as a function of certain socio-demographic and economic factors. The empirical analysi…
COVID-19 e turismo: cosa possiamo imparare dal passato?
2021
L'impatto della crisi pandemica causata dal COVID-19 sui flussi turistici è senza precedenti in termini di rapidità e severità. In questo articolo, cerchiamo di ipotizzare un possibile scenario futuro nel settore turistico, valutando gli effetti di medio termine delle pandemie passate sugli arrivi turistici. I risultati mostrano che le pandemie portano a un declino persistente degli arrivi turistici internazionali, con effetti più intensi nei paesi emergenti e in via di sviluppo. Inoltre, le conseguenze negative legate agli eventi pandemici sono eterogenee sia tra paesi sia tra episodi e dipendono da diverse condizioni economiche come la performance del sistema sanitario, la severità dello …
The Regional Economic Impact of Modern Pandemics and Epidemics.
2022
The current COVID-19 pandemic had, and is still having, damaging effects on economic activities. However, similarly to past pandemic and epidemic episodes, its impact risks to be geographically uneven. Based on pandemic and epidemic episodes of the latest two decades, in this paper we try to conjecture the possible future impact that the current pandemic may have on several regional outcomes such as per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and employment. Specifically, we investigate how this impact differs across regions, evaluating some of the different channels through which the heterogeneous effect of health crises may be transmitted to regional economies.
Big data analytics and internationalisation in Italian firms
2022
The chapter focuses on the role of big data in developing firms’ international e-commerce. We explore the effect of three different types of big data approaches on the probability of firms entering international markets via web sales. Specifically, we consider the following approaches: (a) use of big data managed by internal firm staff; (b) use of big data managed by specialised consulting firms; and (c) use of big data jointly managed by internal firm staff and specialised consultant firms. Applying qualitative data models on a large sample of Italian firms (about 18,900 firms), we find that the use of big data managed by internal staff or by specialised consulting firms is positively asso…
Does family of origin make a difference in occupational outcomes?
2022
Disadvantages faced by parents adversely affect their children’s chances of success in the labour market. We study the influence of intergenerational transmission of parental socio-economic background on the educational attainment and occupational outcome of children, also considering gender differences. To tackle such a complex system of relationships across the outcome variables (both exogenous and endogenous), we adopt a path analysis model. In particular, we study the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage using the innovative and rich AD SILC database, which shows the evolution of occupational outcomes over eight years (measured by wages in 2011 and 2018). Our findings indicate…