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A Measure of Trust: The Italian Regional Divide in a Latent Class Approach

2017

Social differences within countries may partly explain the lack of economic convergence and the persistence of regional disparities. The case of Italy is emblematic: economic gap between North and South remains at high levels with large differences in social capital and in trust. In this paper, we use the micro data from the ISTAT “Aspects of Daily Life” Survey to build a measure of “trust in others” and a measure of “trust in institutions” through a latent class model to attribute a trust score to the Italian households and the Italian regions and, in this way, to add elements of knowledge useful to policies. Our measures confirm a persistent territorial divide although the regional mappin…

Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences

2021

International audience; The past 25 years have seen an unprecedented Europeanisation of the structures and governance in football across the continent. A European (and global) transfer market for players and managers has become the norm and a pan-European league system has been established that regularly exposes supporters to transnational competitions and players from all over Europe. At the same time, manifold typologies of football fans have been established, distinguishing groups of fans based on, for example, fan intensity, fan behaviour or their attitudes towards different actors in the field. The attitudes towards Europe and the self-identification of these fans within Europeanised f…

Urban–Rural Interactions in Latvian Changing Policy and Practice Context

2013

AbstractThis article aims at a better comprehension of urban–rural interactions as a spatial concept and its utilization for spatial and regional policies. Based on literature review and on interviews with planners and experts, the article explores how the concept of urban–rural interactions is defined, characterized and structured. The understanding of urban and rural, how they are connected provides a basis for capturing complexities and development of urban–rural interactions. The study, reviews urban–rural policies and practises in Latvia. Contemporary built-up areas and lifestyles are influenced by imprints of past urban–rural interactions. Aspects of contextuality, cross-sectorality a…

Do Return Migration Policies Matter? A typology of young Romanian returnees’ attitudes towards return policies

2018

Abstract During the last decades, the interest in migration policies has increased, both at institutional level and in academia. However, if the scientific understanding of policies associated with migration at destination has tremendously advanced, our knowledge about origin countries interventions in migration stays limited. Our paper addresses one of the largely unexplored topic of this area: if and what kind of policies supporting return/returnees the returnees themselves find appropriate. The analysis is based on 120 interviews with Romanian returnees, aged 18 to 39, coming back after at least 6 months of working or studying abroad in different EU countries. The article reveals that ev…

Exploring the finance-real economy link in U.S.: an empirical evidence from panel unit root and cointegration analysis

2011

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Applying the Economy for the Common Good Framework to the European Firms: Antecedents, Profile, and Measurement Theory Validation

2021

En las últimas dos décadas, los fallos de mercado han impulsado el surgimiento de diferentes enfoques organizativos y teorías alternativas al sistema económico actual, impulsadas por una perspectiva más humanista y social. Así, la crisis económica que comenzó en 2008 impulsó al sociólogo y activista político austriaco Christian Felber, junto con el apoyo de un grupo de empresarios austríacos, a presentar en 2008 un documento titulado "Nuevos valores para la economía". Este documento planteaba las bases para un sistema alternativo al capitalismo y al comunismo, dando así a luz un nuevo modelo económico y social conocido como Economía del Bien Común (EBC). El modelo de la EBC deriva de difere…

Terrorism as a threat to international tourism: world trends

2018

Current world trends in the development of tourism industry are studied in the article. The essence and types of terrorism have been determined; their classification has been provided. The influence of terrorist acts on the development of tourism in different regions has been analyzed. The efforts made by the international community to neutralize this new challenge for the tourism business have been examined.

Re-cyclical Urbanism. Visions, Paradigms and Projects for the Circular Metamorphosis

2017

The European Commission has clearly stated that more intelligent, sustainable and competitive development requires a paradigm shift in which the territory is construed as a primary resource, considered the holder of “development cells”, which are too often underused or mystified with regard to their real potential for use (EC, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, 2012). Cities designed and built on land rent — on which Italy set a benchmark — need to be replaced with cities of social and cultural profitability, value creation and jobs production. Cities that recycle already-used land to avoid energy waste, smarter cities — not just technologically, but also wiser and more sentie…

Exploring the Underground Economy to support Public Decision Makers to tackle the Growth of Irregular Workers

2008

Rol de la Economía Social y la Universidad en orden a un emprendimiento basado en el conocimiento tecnológico y los valores

2020

[EN] Objectives The present work aims to study the need for a more knowledge-intensive economy, especially technologically based, that allows to face the challenge of the so-called 4th technological revolution, contributing to the development of a more competitive society as well as with values. Thus, this work aims to do a revision of the reality of the spanish university and its role facing the technological challenge. In addition, it aims to make an analysis of the presence and weight of the social economy in the sectors most identified with the so-called fourth industrial revolution, to establish if there are economic and financial differences that explain the higher presence of the inv…