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Three (marginal?) questions regarding convergence

2004

This paper focuses on three (marginal?) questions surrounding the analysis of economic convergence and uses Spanish provinces as a means of illustration. The three questions in hand are the following: (i) given that the geographical units of analysis are usually quite different in economic size, is the weighting of economic units relevant in convergence analysis? (ii) the average per capita income of a given region, or country, is the first moment in the distribution of income, but what about the second moment, inequality? Have we converged in inequality? and (iii) an aggregate welfare index must take into account, at least, the evolution of the first two moments of the distribution of inco…

Labour economicsIndex (economics)InequalityConvergence income distribution inequality indices and regional analysisbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectDistribution (economics)Convergence (economics)jel:D31Per capita incomeIncome inequality metricsIncome distributionEconometricsEconomicsjel:R11businessGeneral Economics Econometrics and FinanceWelfaremedia_commonJournal of Economic Studies
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The measurement of seasonality for tourism evaluation

2017

Seasonal variations in tourism demand represent one of the most challenging topics in tourism research. After highlighting the main pitfalls which characterize the majority of currently used indices for seasonal amplitude, the present work propose the implementation of a recently discusses a recently proposed index for the measurement of seasonality in tourism, based on the transportation problem approach. An adequate measurement of seasonality is a pre-requisite for the evaluation of the effectiveness of tourism policies aimed at reducing tourism demand imbalance.

tourism seasonality transportation probleminequality indices.Settore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
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