Search results for "REGION"

Immigration, factor endowments and the productive structure of Spanish regions, 1996-2005.

2012

The participation of immigrants in the Spanish labour market has increased from less than 3% in 1996 to more than 13% in 2005. The factor proportion model of production was used to examine the impact of such a large labour supply shock on the industrial structure of Spanish regions. The results confirm that, first, labour endowment differences across regions help to explain the regional patterns of industry specialization. Second, immigrants and natives act as complementary factors in most industries. Third, the importance of immigration is relatively small compared with production technique changes and idiosyncratic industry changes in explaining the overall changes in industrial structure. …

The atractiveness and competitiveness of tourist destinations: A study on Southern Italian regions

2009

The present paper aims to assess the relative attractiveness of competing tourist destinations on the basis of individual visitors' perceptions regarding a holiday destination. Using the feeling of tourist well-being achieved by individual tourists we evaluate indirectly the competitive ability of the tourist area to offer a compound tourist site attractiveness. The methodology employed here uses individual survey questionnaires on the tourists' evaluation of the quality of tourist facilities and attributes in a given area (the 'regional tourist profile') as the basis for constructing an aggregate expression for the relative attractiveness of that area. Using various multidimensional statis…

Comparing Different Estimation Methodologies of Regional GDPs in Latin American Countries

2020

This chapter presents a survey of the different methods used to reconstitute long-run income estimations for the Latin American regions. The main purpose is to alert on potential biases derived from them. Although the bottom-up approaches based on the direct estimation of aggregate production, income or expenditure are the preferred option, they have barely been used. The main reason is that all of them are highly data-demanding. Instead, the indirect non-parametric approaches, combined sometimes with direct estimations for agriculture and extractive industries, have been the most recurrent way to estimate output. Out of the nine countries in the sample, seven have followed this “mixed appr…

Higher education institutions, economic growth and GDP per capita in European Union countries

2018

This paper presents an estimation of the contribution of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to economic growth and the Gross Domestic Product per capita of the European (EU) countries over the pe...

Enhancing TIR Image Resolution via Bayesian Smoothing for IRRISAT Irrigation Management Project

2013

Accurate estimation of physical quantities depends on the availability of High Resolution (HR) observations of the Earth surface. However, due to the unavoidable tradeoff between spatial and time resolution, the acquisition instants of HR data hardly coincides with those required by the estimation algorithms. A possible solution consists in constructing a synthetic HR observation at a given time k by exploiting Low Resolution (LR) and HR data acquired at different instants. In this work we recast this issue as a smoothing problem, thus focusing on cases in which observations acquired both before and after time k are available. The proposed approach is validated on a region of interest for t…

Can Migration Decisions Be Affected by Income Policy Interventions? Evidence from Finland

2007

Haapanen M. and Ritsila J. (2007) Can migration decisions be affected by income policy interventions? Evidence from Finland, Regional Studies 41, 339–348. Using Finnish micro-level data, this paper maps out whether migration decisions can be affected by income policy interventions. The analysis focuses on individuals living in peripheral regions and distinguishes peripheral migration from growth-centre migration. In support of the human capital hypothesis, the estimation results imply that migration decisions can be affected by income policy interventions. For example, an intervention that would increase an individual's expected disposable income by 10%, given that he/she does not move to a…

Rural livelihood diversification: a solution for poverty in the post‐Soviet rural Baltic states?

2019

This article analyses rural livelihood diversification through a longitudinal follow‐up survey, that targets former collective farm workers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It argues, that between 1995 and 2010 the former collective farm workers employed three distinct livelihood diversification strategies in order to create their living. A wage‐based livelihood diversification strategy, which does not include any agricultural practices, was more common among the better‐off households. A farm‐based livelihood diversification strategy, which does not rely on salaries, was more often employed by the poor. A mixed strategy, that combines both wage income and farm activities, was used by both …

A Century with the Same Problem - Similar but still Different Solutions? : Four perspectives on the security policies of Finland and Estonia during t…

2020

ORIOL CONVIVE: RESPUESTA COMUNITARIA A UNAS CONDICIONES DIFÍCILES

2016

Resumen . En este trabajo se presenta el proyecto “Orriols Convive” como una iniciativa de desarrollo comunitario que se esta realizando en Els Orriols, barrio periferico obrero de Valencia. Se empieza por describir sucintamente el barrio como entorno para, a continuacion, abordar las fases y los logros del proyecto, asi como los actores implicados y las acciones llevadas a cabo. El trabajo en red entre agentes muy diversos, la proyeccion externa y la autonomia se encuentran entre los principales hitos de un proyecto que, no sin dificultades, trata de revertir una situacion marcada por el olvido institucional, el paro y la precariedad economica, carencias en politicas sociales e infraestruc…

Bioregionalismo: una ventana hacia el desarrollo territorial endógeno y sustentable

2015

La geografía del Siglo XXI estará determinada por la complejidad y diversidad. En un mundo globalizado, el contexto territorial es ahora decisivo en la generación de competitividad de las unidades económicas insertas en la globalización.  En la “aldea global”, es esencial el mantenimiento de identidades culturales diferenciadas a fin de estimular el sentido de pertenencia cotidiana a una sociedad concreta. El potencial de las bioregiones como instrumento de política de desarrollo sustentable está estrechamente ligado a la valorización que el mercado mundial confiera a productos o a servicios ambientales, una cuestión básica, pues su mayor fortaleza reside en el carácter de zonas de reserva …