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Measuring inter-temporal intragenerational mobility: an application to the Italian labour market
No full textAim of the paper is to provide a new class of mobility indices that takes into account the inter-temporal status movements over more than two periods of time. The index is obtained in two steps. First, an individual inter-temporal individual mobility index is
provided, which allows also for analysis of upward and downward mobility. Since memory
plays an important role when an individual makes comparisons with his past, a discount
factor has been introduced. Secondly, individual mobility indicators are aggregated over
all the population, in order to obtain an index that allows for comparisons among different
societies. The empirical application analyzes the mobility of the occupational status in the Italian labour market within an inter-temporal framework, using the Italian Compulsory Communications system data
QUALI SISTEMI LOCALI DEL LAVORO?
No full textViene sviluppata una analisi critica sulla procedura di individuazione dei mercati del lavoro in Italia come sviluppata dall'Istat
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
Poverty-adjusted index of sustainable economic welfare (PA_ISEW): un'applicazione regionale
No full textGDP is often incorrectly used as an indicator of social progress or quality of life. As it is widely recognized, the concept of well-being is multi-dimensional, complex and plural,
including several aspects beyond material well-being and economic activity. So, GDP needs to be both corrected as a measure of economic performance, and extended to include
several other dimensions (such as environmental conditions, non-market production or social sustainability). An attempt to do so is made in this work by applying the ISEW methodology (Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare) to an Italian local authority (Regione Marche). The local level application presented contributes to the existing international literature on the Regional ISEWs, by means of an improved methodology.
Specifically, an extension to account for poverty has been made (Poverty-Adjusted ISEW).
Results show similar trends for GDP and Poverty-Adjusted ISEW, with lower values for the latter. The Poverty Adjustment lowers the ISEW series by nearly 10%
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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An Analysis of the Italian Labour Market based on the Compulsory Communications Data
No full textThe Compulsory Communications system data contain important and so far under-investigated information on employment dynamics in Italy. They record all the activations, transformations, fixed-term extensions and anticipated terminations of employment relationships between any worker and firm since the beginning of 2008. Aim of this note is to exploit this recent database and provide useful up-to-date measures of the job dynamics in the Italian labour market. In particular, we estimate transition probabilities among different types of contracts and detect the main determinants of the probability of job activation and job anticipated termination
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