Search results for "Frontier"

The Industrial City: The Multi-Ethnic Frontier of the Twentieth Century

2004

Between 1890 and 1920, big American industrial cities represented the frontier for the more than 23 million immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and Central America, as well as for the African-Americans from the South. The development of mass consumption industries and the interventionism of the federal government provided security at the workplace and a general improvement in living standards for blue collar workers. The local party machines, the industrial unions and the effects of the First World War fully integrated the new immigrants into politics. Mass culture and entertainment made Americanization easier and, together with organised crime, were a quick way of social asc…

Assessment of tourism competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency

2013

La giustizia e le nuove frontiere dell'eguaglianza

2009

Exploring the sources of labour productivity growth and convergence in the Italian regions: some evidence from a production frontier approach

2009

This paper investigates labour productivity growth and regional convergence patterns in Italy over the time span 1982–2000. Starting from some evidence of spatial polarisation within Italian economy, the analysis aims at exploring the sources of this tendency. To this end, an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) production frontiers is employed which allows to decompose labour productivity growth into efficiency change, technological progress and capital deepening, looking then at the relative contribution of each component to regional convergence. Moreover, some measures of human capital and public capital are used as augmentation factors of the conventional inputs. The study …

Stochastic Frontiers Approach: an Empirical Analysis of Italian Environmental Spending

2012

Using the stochastic frontiers approach (SFA) on a panel of Italian regional data, this paper tries to analyse the optimal design of environmental spending. The main question is, so forth, studying centralization vs decentralization of a public economic function, such as the protection of the environment, in order to improve the welfare of a country. Empirical results on Italy are ambiguous: the changing from a centralized to a decentralized government, giving more autonomy to local units, does not highlight a clear improvement in regional economic performance.

Local vs. National Environmental Spending: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

2012

This work studies the impact of public environmental spending in a fiscal federalist framework. The main question is studying when the centralization of this public economic function is welfare improving. Applying the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) on Italian, Portuguese and Slovakian data, the paper tries to test this issue. Our results highlight the superiority of centralized environmental spending with respect to the decentralization of this particular public good.

Controllo della migrazione nel Mediterraneo e tratta di persone: profili di responsabilità internazionale

2022

Physical or cultural frontier: a question of method. The example of the Imera-Salso sicilian valley

2009

Facing the study of the frontier on the basis of archaeological evidence presupposes the construction of a rigorous methodological grid which acts as an interpretative filter of the evidence to be analysed. From the 1970s to the present, frontier studies have undergone a notable increase. The debate on the subject has expanded, directing research on several levels. This contribution proposes a model of analysis of the numismatic and archaeological documentation aimed at studying the frontier of the Imera-Salso valley in Sicily

Le frontiere della rappresentazione

2010

Centro e periferia nell'Etiopia imperiale: governare la frontiera nord-occidentale nel bassopiano di Gondar

2016

Il contributo analizza il processo di ristrutturazione dello Stato etiopico alla frontiera nordoccidentale tra il 1941 e il 1972, utilizzando come caso di studio un progetto di sviluppo agricolo finanziato da Banca Mondiale e Nazioni Unite nel distretto di Setit Humera. Metodologicamente, l’articolo si avvale di fonti primarie inedite raccolte negli archivi britannici, etiopici e della Banca Mondiale, così come di interviste orali e letteratura grigia La ri- visitazione delle strategie di governo del bassopiano non è un processo line- are, ma il risultato delle negoziazioni tra i diversi livelli di governo de jure ede facto che esercitano prerogative di sovranità lungo il confine. La dialet…