Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luigi Pieraccioni Title: Editoriale Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-6 Volume: 2009/1 Year: 2009 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=35624&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/REST2009-001001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Georg Lun Title: Le relazioni esistenti tra produttivit?, occupazione e benessere: un'analisi sulle province italiane Abstract: The relationship between productivity, employment and GDP: an analysis on Italian provinces Objectives - The paper aims at describing the relationship between productivity, employment and GDP for the Italian provinces in the period 1995-2003. This relationship is analysed from a static, as well as from a dynamic point of view. Methods and Results The paper applies the so-called augmented fundamental identity as described by Van Ark and McGuckin. This equation allows the analysis of the differences between per capita income and productivity. The identity equation shows that the difference between GDP and productivity can be decomposed into several labour market indicators. In this way the effect of working hours, of employment, of the working age population and the effect of labour force participation on the GDP can be quantified. The identity can be calculated for levels, as well as for growth rates. Analysing the growth rates provides inside into the changes of the relationships between the involved indicators. Conclusions The analysis shows that the differences of the provincial GDP between northern and southern Italy are to a large part due to differences in the labour market indicators. If instead of the static view are analysed the dynamic development of the indicators (1995-2003), the variation of the growth rates between northern and southern Italy are much less pronounced. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:7-24 Volume: 2009/1 Year: 2009 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=35625&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/REST2009-001002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Cirilli Author-Name: Paolo Veneri Title: Spatial structure and mobility patterns: towards a taxonomy of the Italian urban systems Abstract: Spatial structure and mobility patterns: towards a taxonomy of the Italian urban systems - Urban spatial organization has become a wide field of research in the last years, since it is thought to be an important determinant of the city?s performance from many points of view. Nevertheless, Italian urban spatial organization has not been studied in depth and a general description of the Italian urban territory is lacking. The aim of this work is to build a taxonomy of the Italian cities where the latter are conceptualised as agglomeration of contiguous municipalities on the basis of their patterns of spatial organization and commuting-to-work mobility. For this purpose, three preliminary steps had to be carried out. First of all, the major Italian urban systems have been identified, following a functional approach that is based on the principle of maximum self-containment of commuters? flows. Secondly, original indicators have been built to gain a better understanding of cities? spatial organization and of their patterns of mobility. Thirdly, the relation between these two dimensions has been investigated through a multivariate statistical analysis. The results of the analysis show that variables of spatial organization especially urban dispersion and of mobility patterns are closely related and that cities might be aggregated in five groups, ranging from the most compact and transitoriented cities to the most dispersed and car-oriented ones. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:25-62 Volume: 2009/1 Year: 2009 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=35626&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/REST2009-001003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luigi De Iaco Title: Fondi strutturali per il ciclo di programmazione 2007-2013: analisi critica della ripartizione delle risorse finanziarie tra le Regioni dei Paesi membri Abstract: Structural Funds for the programming period 2007-2013: a critical analysis on financial allocation among Regions of Member States Objectives - The recent European Commission?s implementing regulation for the Structural and Cohesion Funds 2007-2013 establishes criteria for defining the Regions eligible for funding from the Structural Funds. Moreover it identifies the objectives to be reached during the programming period. The general objectives of the Structural policies consist in speeding up the convergence of the least-developed Member States and regions by improving conditions for growth and employment through higher quality investments in physical and human capital, innovation, environment and administrative efficiency. However, the indicators used to identify regions for funding mainly refer to GDP and population. Methods and Results The analysis uses a simulation model based on Regions of Member States financial allocation model. The results show that using indicators more coherent with the European Commission objectives would lead to a different funds allocation. Conclusions This paper tries to highlight the inconsistency of this process and, through the identification and use of alternative indicators, proposes some simulations in order to present a different and more coherent scenario of financial allocation of Structural Funds. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:62-103 Volume: 2009/1 Year: 2009 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=35627&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/REST2009-001004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Dav? Author-Name: Isidora Barbaccia Title: Misure di agglomerazione spaziale nei Sistemi Locali del Lavoro siciliani Abstract: Spatial agglomeration indicators in the Sicilian Local Labour Systems Objectives - This paper examines the links among productive specialization, variety of the economic environment and knowledge spillovers on the basis of the territorial analyses present in the current literature. With the aim of identifying localization benefits in a particular area, some aspects of business settling are compared with trends in the development of economic activities and, particularly, with agglomeration process of the firms. Methods and Results The empirical analysis will be carried out pointing to the dynamics of employment consequent to the effects of the externalities above mentioned. Employment data are taken from the Manufacturing and Service Censuses of the years 1981, 1991 and 2001 and refer to the 77 Sicilian Local Labour Systems. Precisely, data pertain to the following sections of the classification ATECO 2002: Mining and quarrying (C), Manufacturing (D) and Total private services (G, H, I, J, K). We consider some suitable economic indicators to depict the characteristics of concentration: _ localization ratios for studying the evolutionary trends in specialization for different types of economic activity; _ diversity measures, based on a Hirschman-Herfindahl index, suggesting the presence of Jacobs-type dynamic externalities or, on the contrary, the operativeness of MAR dynamic effects; _ competition indices to gather information about the competition levels of the markets depending on their structure; _ agglomeration indices, to measure the geographic concentration of the economic activity connected to high and/or increasing industrial concentration levels in the adjacent LLS. Conclusions The agglomeration process results from inter-sector links, easing the diffusion of innovations thanks to the variety of urban contexts. Agglomeration forces appear to be outweighed, especially since 2001, by the influence of co-agglomeration factors due to the presence, in the same local reality, of small-sized enterprises belonging to different sectors. Owing to the increasing interdependence among sectors, these effects caused a redistribution of employment among the different groups of economic activities. The indexes showed how, during the inter-census gaps, a despecialization trend took over, bringing local production structures constantly closer to the average regional values. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:104-136 Volume: 2009/1 Year: 2009 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=35628&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/REST2009-001005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carla Altobelli Author-Name: Paola Ribaldi Title: La banca dati provinciale IPI PRINT Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:137-140 Volume: 2009/1 Year: 2009 Issue:1 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=35629&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:restre:v:html10.3280/REST2009-001006 Number: 6