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Evaluating the impact of Violence Against Women in the macroeconomic Input–Output framework
No full textViolence against women and girls (VAW&G) has progressively become an emergency issue in many European countries and a relevant topic of public discussion. In this paper, we attempt to insert this theme within a model for macroeconomic policy design and evaluation. Special attention is devoted to the assessment of distortions in the allocation of public expenditure generated by VAW&G, in terms of gains and losses in aggregate total output. We adopt a macroeconomic input–output approach by adding to the framework an industry that produces care services to victims of VAW&G. The resulting model is integrated with the public expenditure reallocations that emerge as a result of the progressive elimination of violence. It is, thus, a simulation tool for determining total output gains or losses that emerge from the reallocation of public expenditures as VAW&G fades
UNA ANALISI CRITICA DEI SISTEMI DEL LAVORO INDIVIDUATI DALL'ISTAT
No full textThe Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) defines the Local Labour Systems (LLS) by aggregating municipalities through a procedure that matches information on place of residence and on job location. This territorial classification, although similar to the British approach, does not seem to meet the requirements of the original paradigm based on districts and metropolitan areas; this discrepancy may induce relevant ambiguities in terms of interpretation of the results. In this paper we compare the LLS proposed by ISTAT for the Marche region in 2001 to an alternative territorial classification that is based on the regular Markov chains theory. The results show that the common criticism on the interpretation of the LLS has not only a theoretical but also an empirical foundation. In particular, the territorial analysis proposed by the LLS seems to provide, in many cases, an insufficient and misleading comprehension of the phenomena of interest
Economic Expansion, Urban Mobility and the Mono-centric Model: A Multivariate Spatial Analysis of Commuting Patterns in a Metropolitan Region of Southern Europe
No full textEmpirical evidence has demonstrated that mono-centric models are undergoing a
transformation towards low-density, scattered and polycentric structures all over Europe.
However, because of the 1960s-1970s demographic boom, Mediterranean cities are
probably the socioeconomic contexts where transition to dispersed spatial structures is
more evident due to the presence of consolidated compact and dense urban forms
representative of mono-centric structures and economic functions concentrated in central
cities. With the aim to better understanding the latent socioeconomic structure of mono centric systems transitioning towards a more dispersed metropolitan configuration, a
spatial framework providing a comprehensive outlook of commuting patterns in the Athens'
Metropolitan Region (AMR), Greece, was proposed in this study. The analysis was run on
commuting flows derived from the 2001 population census at spatial scale of municipalities
using a mix of multivariate techniques that assess metropolitan hierarchy from central to
more peripheral locations. Central locations, including inner cities of Athens and Piraeus,
exhibit a balanced rate of residents-to-internal workers, attracting considerable workers'
flows from neighbouring places. Employment sub-centres (resident population > 10,000
inhabitants) emerged as a response to the infrastructural development driven by the 2004
Olympic Games, featuring a particularly high concentration of workers commuting from
neighbouring municipalities. Results of this analysis indicate the persistence of a bi-centric
spatial structure gravitating on Athens and Piraeus, with early formation of employment
sub-centres in more peripheral metropolitan districts and a moderate alteration of the
mono-centric scheme in specific peri-urban areas because of sprawled expansion
Introduction: Regional analysis of complex socioeconomic processes. the role of local districts
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Local-scale economics: Statistical indicators and latent patterns of labour market areas in Italy
No full textThis book proposes an articulated and multidisciplinary research path that introduces to the potential of adopting territorial statistics, namely those elaborated at the level of Local Labour Systems, for carrying out spatial analysis of apparent and latent interactions between socioeconomic phenomena and environmental dynamics at a sufficiently broad and efficient geographical unit of analysis. This allows to examine in a more exhaustive manner the complexity and non-linearity of several socio-economic and territorial processes and to address the multidimensional concept of sustainability from below. Studies included in this book contribute to an integrated, multidisciplinary reading that covers the three pillars of sustainability. Italy is a relevant case study in this sense and can be assumed as a paradigmatic country also for other advanced European nations that undertook territorial analysis at a very disaggregated spatial level (i.e., UK, Spain, Germany and France among others)
It is the Total that Does [Not] Make the Sum: Nature, Economy and Society in the Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being of the Italian Provinces
No full textOver the last years there has been an increasing interest in measuring well-being at local level. This is mainly due to the fact that socio-economic indicators at country level do not provide a complete picture of the living conditions in a territory. Moreover, the temporal dimension is also a fundamental aspect that allows analysing the trends of local well-being over time. The aim of this paper is to provide a more in-depth analysis of territorial disparities, inequalities and divergences across the Italian territories. In particular, this paper is one of the first attempts to analyse the overtime trend of the Italian well-being at provincial level (NUTS3) using a subset of indicators recently provided by ISTAT to measure the Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) at local level. We apply a Bayesian latent variable model to construct three composite indicators related to the three main pillars of well-being, namely economic, social, and environmental. These composite indicators have been estimated for all the years between 2004 and 2016 for each Italian province. Results suggest that in the period of analysis the economic well-being has worsened in almost all provinces, with weak signs of recovery starting from 2014. On the contrary, social well-being improved in almost all provinces, with some exceptions in the South. The environmental well-being has increased over time as well, more in the Northern and Central provinces than in the South
An Iterative Approach to Stratification: Poverty at Regional Level in Italy
Full text linkWe develop an iterative procedure to generate stratification in non-overlapping classes of a population based on a one-dimensional variable, namely, the Italian income. The procedure works under the assumption that the income distribution is generated by a log-normal mixture of homogeneous income groups. The number of income groups is not determined a priori but rather endogenously by the iterative procedure that stops when the solution to a specific second-degree polynomial equation does not exist. We apply the approach to study the heterogeneity of Italian incomes and the poor population at regional level in the years 2005, 2010, and 2015. The cross-regional comparisons show differences in inequality and stratification dynamics while comparisons over time show the evolution of the classes
Correction to: An Iterative Approach to Stratification: Poverty at Regional Level in Italy (Social Indicators Research, (2020), 10.1007/s11205-020-02440-6) [Correction]
No full textIn the original publication of this article, the Equations 16, 17, 26, 28 and 30 has been published incorrectly
The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare: A Comparison of Two Italian Regions
No full textThe Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) proposed by Daly and Cobb in 1989 provides a more down-to-earth
representation of the well-being of a society than GDP does, since its definition involves also variables that are not included in the conventional national accounts (such as social and environmental issues). Recently there has been an increasing interest in calculating this index also at local levels. Following this strand of literature, aim of this paper is to provide a comparison between ISEW and GDP trends for two central Italian regions, Tuscany and Marche, over the years 1999-2009. In particular, we
try to explain how differences in the level of GDP are reflected in differences in ISEW levels between these regions. Finally, we discuss and propose further adjustments in calculation of the ISEW
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