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TURISMO E PERCORSI DI MOBILITà NO0N MOTORIZZATA
No full textIl saggio tratta della necessità di creare degli itinerari specifici nell'ambito di percorsi di mobilità lenta, disegnati nell'ottica distrettuale degli attori sul territorio in grado di assecondare le motivazioni della domanda di turismo rurale e all'aria aperta
The impact of production offshoring on the skill composition of manufacturing firms: evidence from Italy
No full textIn this work we explore how the international outsourcing of production impacts the skill composition of employment within Italian manufacturing firms. In particular, our aim is to assess whether the choice to offshore production activities to cheap‐labour countries implies a bias in the employment of skilled workers relative to unskilled ones. Using a balanced panel of firms covering the period 1995–2003, we set up a counterfactual analysis in which, by using a difference‐in‐differences propensity score matching estimator, we compare the dynamics of skill demand for treated and control firms while addressing the possible problem of selection bias. Our results identify a ‘potential’ skill bias effect of production offshoring. In particular, we find that treated firms tend to show an upward shift in the skill ratio with respect to the counterfactual sample, but coefficients are not significantly different from zero. When we look at the elements of the skill ratio separately, we find that the skill bias is driven by a fall in the employment of production workers (blue collars), rather than by the increase in the employment of non‐production workers (white collars), thus providing further evidence on the unskilled labour‐saving nature of international outsourcing.difference‐in‐differences, production offshoring, propensity score matching, skill‐bias, Fl6, J23, J24,
Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis
No full textIn corso di stampa 2007/2008
This work explores the effects of cross-border relocation of production on the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms. Its aim is to assess if the firms' strategy to offshore production activities towards cheap labor countries determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled versus unskilled workers. Using a balanced panel of firm-based data across the period 1995-2003, we test this skill-bias hypothesis by means of a counterfactual experiment in which we employ a difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimator in order to control for selectivity bias without relying on a specific functional form of the relations of interest. In line with the literature, our results point to confirm a general, although weak, skill bias effect of production offshoring on the labor-force composition of Italian manufacturing: in particular, we find that firms farming out production stages in 1998-2000 show an upward shift in the skill ratio with respect to the counterfactual of firms not moving their production abroad. However, when we look at the single components of the skill ratio, we find that the skill bias effect is primarily driven by a fall in the employment of production workers, while a weak or not significant effect is found with respect to the employment of skilled personnel
Reply to comment by Evelpidu N., and Pirazzoli P. on "Tidal notches in the Mediterranean sea: A comprehensive analysis"
No full textWe take the chance offered by the comment ofEvelpidou andPirazzoli (2015a)to our paper (Antonioli et al., 2015) to clarifysome aspects of our work. We reinforce our statement that apresent-day tidal notch is almost continuously developed alongmuch of the central Mediterranean coast
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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