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A multidimensional analysis of the EU regional inequalities
No full textThis article illustrates the steps followed to construct a measure that accounts for multidimensional inequality across European regions in terms of human development. First, a multidimensional index to explore the between inequalities across regions has been produced. Referring to UNDP (Human development report. Technical notes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/fles/hdr2018_technical_notes .pdf) updated methodology and integrating it with the European Commission (2011, 2014) contributions, a Human Development Index has been calculated for 205 regions in the European Union, within the span of time from 2000 to 2011. These estimates have then been adapted to inequality, based on intra-regional distribution of selected variables following the UNDP methodology to calculate an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index. This allowed to explore how the human development pattern changes when accounting for within inequalities, and to estimate the Loss in potential human development due to inequality in the society. The latter can serve as a measure for multidimensional inequality. Results show a generally increased level of human development achievements despite a widespread persistent level of inequalities in its distribution, as well as a spatial connotation of both dynamics
Replication Data for: “From ‘Is it unconfounded?’ to ‘How much confounding would it take?’: Applying the sensitivity-based approach to assess causes of support for peace in Colombia”
No full textAttention to the credibility of causal claims has increased tremendously in recent years.
When relying on observational data, debate often centers on whether investigators have ruled out any bias due to confounding. However, the relevant scientific question is generally not whether bias is precisely zero, but whether it is problematic enough to alter one's research conclusion. We argue that sensitivity analyses would improve research practice by showing how results would change under plausible degrees of confounding, or equivalently, by revealing what one must argue about the strength of confounding to sustain a research conclusion. This would improve scrutiny of studies in which non-zero bias is expected, and of those where authors argue for zero bias but results may be fragile to confounding too weak to be ruled out. We illustrate this using off-the-shelf sensitivity tools to examine two potential influences on support for the
FARC peace agreement in Colombia
Inequality and social capital in the EU regions: a multidimensional analysis
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the interactions between social capital and production structure in their relation with regional inequality. Combining survey data with available regional databases for the EU-15, it provides a panel data analysis of multidimensional inequalities based on the idea that social capital is a fundamental factor determining its regional levels, along with the economic specialization of regions. Results confirm an inverse relation between inequality and social capital. At the same time, they highlight the positive impact of production clusters on the regional environment. Findings suggest that the joint effect of predictors is ambiguous, and may so be dependent on the different sorts of local specialization and social capital endowment
A geography of multidimensional inequalities in the european union
Get PDFSOCIAL CAPITAL AND INEQUALITIES IN THE EU REGIONS
Abstract: This paper focuses on the interactions between social capital and production structure in their relation with regional inequality. Combining survey data with available regional databases for the EU15, it aims at providing a panel data analysis of multidimensional inequalities based on the idea that social capital is a fundamental factor determining its regional levels, along with the economic specialisation of regions. Results confirm an inverse relation between inequality and social capital. At the same time, they highlight the positive impact of production clusters on the regional environment. Findings suggest that the joint effect of predictors is ambiguous though, and may so be dependent on the different sorts of local specialisation and social capital endowment.
Keywords: European Union, inequality, region, production specialisation, social capital.A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE EU REGIONAL INEQUALITIES
Abstract: This article illustrates the steps followed to construct a measure that accounts for multidimensional inequality across European regions in terms of human development. First, a multidimensional index to explore the between inequalities across regions has been produced. Referring to UNDP updated methodology (2015) and integrating it with the European Commission contributions (2011, 2014), a Human Development Index has been calculated for 205 regions in the European Union, within the span of time from 2000 to 2011. These estimates have then been adapted to inequality, based on intra-regional distribution of selected variables following the UNDP methodology to calculate an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index. This allowed to explore how the human development pattern changes when accounting for within inequalities, and to estimate the Loss in potential human development due to inequality in the society. The latter can serve as a measure for multidimensional inequality. Results show a generally increased level of human development achievements despite a widespread persistent level of inequalities in its distribution, as well as a spatial connotation of both dynamics.
Keywords: Europe, human development economics, inequality, multidimensional, regional.EXPLORING THE SPATIAL CONTEXT: ECONOMIC SPECIALISATION AND INEQUALITY
Abstract: This paper provides an explorative analysis of regional characteristics relevant in the study of spatial disparities. Considering the economic production specialisations of regions and characteristics of their employment dynamics, it aims at describing the regional production structure and its spatial distribution within the EU15. Regional databases for 205 EU regions have been reviewed. Synthetic indicators of local production structures have been obtained through Principal Component Analyses. Spatial distribution of obtained measures has been compared to a previous estimation of multidimensional inequalities across the same regions. Findings show how lower levels of inequality are present in regions with stronger labour markets. At the same time, they appear to be the more economically productive and industrially diversified. Results suggest that different social and institutional settings may be the key for both economic and social development of European regions.
Keywords: European Union, industrial clusters, inequality, production structure, region
Productive structure and spatial inequalities. The role of innovative clusters.
No full textThis paper focuses on the interactions among socio-economic inequalities and the spaces they concern, investigating the connections between economic production, social capital and inequality in a region. Main research questions are about the spatial relations between the demand side of labour market and multidimensional inequality, especially looking at the role of innovative clusters. The production structure and social capital endowments of 205 selected EU15 regions have been reviewed for the time range 2000-2011. Available data have been synthesised by explorative Principal Component Analysis. Extracted indicators for the two selected economic and social dimensions have been compared to the levels of the estimated multidimensional measure of inequality in the regions. Results say that spatial distributions of considered domains share similar patterns, opposing north to south of Europe
Full range analog Wheatstone bridge-based automatic circuit for differential capacitance sensors evaluation
No full textCurrent conveyor-based differential capacitance analog interface for displacement sensing application
No full textA current conveyor-based analog electronic interface for differential capacitive sensors is here shown. The read-out circuit that utilizes second generation Current Conveyors (CCIIs) as active blocks is able to evaluate differential capacitive variations performing a capacitance-to-voltage conversion. This solution has been implemented both in a discrete element board and as integrated version in a standard 350 nm CMOS technology. Simulations and experimental results have shown a linear input/output characteristic and a good agreement with theoretical expectations, being the former performed for both the designed solutions, whereas the latter only for a discrete prototype board (employing a low cost commercial component (AD844). Sensitivity and resolution data on a practical case-study of a displacement sensor are constant and their values are satisfactory. Both simulated and measured results make the proposed architecture a good candidate as first stage of analog front-ends to be employed in differential capacitive instrumentation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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