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INEQUALITIES AND TOURISM CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR: A MIXTURE MODEL ANALYSIS

2015

The criticism of income as a measure of well-being and trends in living standards is well known and recently scholars have been involved in defining measures to better assess material well-being and differences in living standards. Recent evidence shows that individuals improve their well-being significantly if they are able to spend on higher-order goods and services like tourism and leisure activities. In the light of that, our study proposes to explore differences in living standards in Italy by analysing the distribution of tourism expenditure. For this aim, Mixtures of Regression Models were used in order to investigate whether there is an unobserved heterogeneity in tourism consumptio…

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…

THE ECONOMIC INTERVENTION STRATEGY OF THE INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN PALESTINE. A CASE STUDY: THE SHORT-TERM EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS

Many countries around the world, both developed and developing, are characterized by high level of unemployment. This phenomenon has profound implications not only for economic activity, by limiting the amount of labour supply and therefore potential output, but also for political and social unrest, as the experience of many Middle-Eastern and North-African economies has recently shown. Unemployment is particularly relevant for Palestine. Indeed, since the mid-1990s, Palestine is one of the countries in the world with the highest rate of unemployment. Persistently high unemployment reflect several characteristics of the Palestinian economy, mostly important the dependence on the Israeli's e…

Effetti spaziali o settoriali? La crescita della dimensione media d'impresa in Italia

2015

Utilizzando una recente versione della shift-share con struttura spaziale, in questo contributo scomponiamo il cambiamento della dimensione media delle imprese nelle province italiane rispetto a componenti di natura sia spaziale (di regione e di vicinato) che settoriale. L’analisi, condotta con riferimento al periodo 2004-2009, mette in risalto differenze di rilievo rispetto la classe dimensionale considerata. In particolare, si registra una netta demarcazione Nord-Sud nella distribuzione provinciale degli effetti spaziali e settoriali se consideriamo le micro imprese (1-10 addetti), mentre la geografia appare molto piu complessa per le piccole imprese (11-50 addetti).

Demographic change, new business formation and spatial concentration of population

2015

This paper investigates the role of urbanization in the relation between population change and new business formation. The hypothesis of research is that population change significantly influences new business formation only in regions at lower urbanization. This hypothesis is based on the idea that local demand and growing population are significant determinants of new business formation only for rural regions. Using Italian data, we find evidence in support of this hypothesis. Moreover, we find that evidence of spatial dependence in the relation between population change, new business formation and urbanization.

L'analisi controfattuale

2011

VALUTAZIONE DELLE PERFORMANCE E ATTIVITÀ DI INDIRIZZO, MONITORAGGIO E CONTROLLO SULLA PROGRAMMAZIONE PUBBLICA REGIONALE DEI FONDI STRUTTURALI. APPROC…

2014

La programmazione pubblica regionale attraversa un momento di forte criticità interna legata al soggetto attuatore regionale, caratterizzata da una lentissima attuazione dei programmi operativi cofinanziati dalla Commissione Europea. In risposta alle emergenze economiche e sociali, l’amministrazione regionale necessita di strumenti in grado di comunicare efficacemente azioni e risultati che possono positivamente influenzare la vita sociale e civile della comunità regionale. In particolare, gli operatori economici e, in generale, tutti i portatori di interesse, basano i propri atteggiamenti e le proprie scelte sulle aspettative delle dinamiche attese nei settori economici e sociali in cui op…

Continuità e discontinuità con il passato

2008

Exploring User Behavior in Destination Websites: An Application of Web Mining Techniques

2021

The development of the Internet has so strongly affected the way a tourist destination can be promoted that portals now play an important role in defining the marketing strategies of tourist destinations. Hence, investigating website surfing behavior has become crucial to understanding the needs of potential tourists. Using Web Mining techniques, our study explores the information-seeking behavior of those who log on to a website promoting the island of Sicily, a well known tourist destination in the South of Italy. The study explores whether a tourist’s country of origin affects their information needs and surfing behavior. Actually, our results do show differences in behavior between user…

Laboratorio di Statistica Economica con R

2009

Questo libro costituisce materiale di supporto ed integrazione alle lezioni di LABORATORIO DI STATISTICA ECONOMICA svolte nell’ambito del Corso di Laurea in STATISTICA ED INFORMATICA PER LA GESTIONE E L’ANALISI DEI DATI (SIGAD) della Facoltà di Economia dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo. La ragione di questo progetto editoriale è nell’assenza di un testo dedicato da offrire agli studenti. Ciò, naturalmente, non esclude che il volume possa risultare utile anche in contesti didattici più generali quale supporto per un percorso applicato di alcuni classici temi eco- nomici ben aldilà dello specifico corso per il quale è stato progettato. Nell’offerta formativa dell’Ateneo di Palermo, il L…