Between 2003 and 2007 the volume of container traffic handled by the national port system increased only slightly despite the strong growth of maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea. This was due both to national economic stagnation and to the inability of the ports to extend their...

Italian Abstract: Questo lavoro sfrutta i risultati di un'indagine svolta dalla Banca d'Italia nel 2012 presso un campione di 1.200 imprese manifatturiere italiane per analizzare i costi e il grado di esternalizzazione della logistica e i possibili ostacoli che impattano negativamente sul...

The article presents the yearly series of Italian regional per capita product in the period 1891-2004. An estimate is also provided of the product in the North and South from 1861 until today. The following periods are singled out in the series of product: 1861-1913: formation of regional...

The aim of this paper is the analysis of vulnerability within families in nine regions of Italy and represents the second part of a research on regional inequalities in income distribution. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a single measure of...

COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE OBJECTIVES OF GROWTH AND OF COHESION IN THE E.U. POLICIES The main objective pursued by European Union through the Europe 2020 Strategy is the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of its Member Countries, whereas social cohesion is one of the three objectives set by...

Questo lavoro intende contribuire ad ampliare la precedente indagine Res sull’innovazione in Sicilia, soffermandosi in particolare ad analizzare i principali fattori di ostacolo alla realizzazione di innovazioni. In generale, le nostre elaborazioni mettono in evidenza l'esistenza di elevati...

Il presente lavoro affronta il problema dello sviluppo nel Mezzogiorno, cogliendo l'innegabile dualismo territoriale Nord/Sud e le difficoltà concrete di promuovere nell'economia meridionale uno sviluppo endogeno. A tal proposito è stato posto in rilievo il ruolo degli attori locali...

We estimate the private (individual) and social return to schooling in Italy and its macro regions. Our estimates take into account the effects of schooling on employment and wages, as well as the key features of the Italian tax and social security system. We find that the individual return to...

“Economic history” is at once the events of the past, and their subsequent reconstruction. Italy’s “traditional” North-South gap developed after Unification, as the South failed to match the industrial progress of the North; that regional failure seems tied to a broader, national...

Carrying out a marketing operation on a territory means to define the conceptual instruments and acts in order to connect the demand of the territory to its offer; such action has the function to define a geographic area in relation to the expectations and the needs expressed by the demand, both...