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Can the South-East Sicily Horticultural District benefit of migrant workers to achieve an efficient internationalization pattern?
No full textToday in the EU, within which the labour factor is relatively scarce, policies of open goods markets are often linked to closed labour markets for foreign manpower. These policies do contrast with well known theoretical models of international commerce, as stated by Heckscher-Ohlin and Stolper-Samuelson (Leamer, 1995) demonstrating that labour mobility (migration) and goods mobility (free trade) are substitutes, that is to say international commerce and international labour mobility can generate the same economic effects in the involved countries and the increase of the first can reduce to zero the second one (Mundell, 1957). The Euro-Mediterranean strategy embraces this point of view, even though local policies (national and regional) continue to protect local labour market not considering that recent researches assure foreign manpower doesn’t spoil local resident wages and actually contribute to local economies (Longhi, Nijkamp e Poot, 2005). Considering the gap between theoretical assumptions and real behaviors, the paper reports a field survey in the South-East Sicily Horticultural District, one of the major migration-attractive zones in southern Italy agriculture. The paper aims at giving some insights on the District benefit of immigrants’ work-force in internationalizing its patterns. Fifteen key informants have been selected and interviewed performing face-to-face interviews for a total of 20 hours during year 2011. The research allows us to affirm that the local communities and local governments substantially use migrants’ manpower to lower production costs, actually profiting of illegal conditions to control the local market. As a matter of fact they prefer free trade for their products and control for foreign migration. The answer at the question whether the South-East Sicily Horticultural District could benefit of foreign labour to internationalize its pattern is substantially negative
La riscossione dei tributi
Full text linkIl volume tratta in meniera organica il sistema di riscossione dei tributi, anche alla luce della riforma del 2010, tanto nelle imposte dirette quanto nelle imposte indirett
La riscossione nei confronti del coobbligato, tra ruolo e nuovo accertamento esecutivo
Full text linkSono presi in esame gli strumenti di esecuzione coattiva della pretesa fiscale nei confronti dei soggetti coobbligati con il contribuente originari
Il ruolo degli immigrati nell’integrazione d’uso del territorio urbano e rurale. Il caso della Sicilia Sud-orientale.
No full textNella Sicilia Sud-orientale, dove la presenza di immigrati attivi nelle produzioni orticole in serra è rilevante e indispensabile, gli assetti produttivi e residenziali si sono modificati nel tempo per la necessità di dare alloggio non fortuito ai lavoratori immigrati e alle loro famiglie. La presenza di immigrati attivi in agricoltura è significativa sia per il settore primario sia per la qualità urbanistica dei centri urbani e delle campagne. La ricerca è stata svolta col metodo qualitativo, attraverso una dozzina di interviste Face-to-Face a interlocutori privilegiati, attivi nei settori produttivi, nelle professioni, nell’amministrazione pubblica e nella comunità di immigrati. L’analisi dei dati rilevati permette di affermare che la presenza degli immigrati è sufficientemente tollerata dai residenti, che volentieri cedono in affitto abitazioni prevalentemente localizzate nei centri urbani ma in cattivo stato di manutenzione. Le parti abbandonate o degradate dei centri urbani sono rivitalizzate dalla presenza di immigrati che animano il mercato degli affitti anche per immobili “fatiscenti”, non usati dagli italiani. Gli imprenditori agricoli concedono in uso costruzioni rurali, a volte come integrazione salariale, e allo scopo di esercitare un controllo diretto sulla forza lavoro. Dopo il primo ambientamento, durante il quale sono disponibili anche ad abitare in residenze molto degradate, i lavoratori immigrati preferiscono le abitazioni urbane, intorno alle quali ricostruiscono la presenza di piccoli commerci specializzati rispetto alle loro preferenze (macellerie, drogherie). L’azione degli enti locali è ritenuta insufficiente ed è supplita dall’azione di associazioni di volontariato e di parrocchie, anche per mancanza di fondi pubblici da destinare sia all’accoglienza sia alle politiche di edilizia popolare. Nonostante la disponibilità ad accettare la presenza di comunità estranee alla cultura locale, la maggior parte dei residenti intervistati ritiene che le amministrazioni di ogni livello dovrebbero sentire maggiormente il compito di formulare politiche abitative destinate ad alleviare il disagio abitativo e di convivenza tra comunità diverse
Tourist Local Labor Systems, Agriculture and Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Sicily
No full textIn Sicily, the relationships between tourism and coastal zone are particularly interesting to be investigated also in their intertwinement with rural development. The paper aims at presenting the first results on a territorial research held in Sicily in order to enlighten existing relationships among agriculture, rural development and tourism, in the view of supporting the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). Analysis of statistical data describes significance differences in performance of agriculture and tourism relationships and its potential evolution within Local Labor Systems and the Tourism Local Labor Systems with specific respect to the ICZM policy adopted by public bodies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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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