L’Alto Fortore, situato nell’area interna della Regione Campania, a cavallo con il versante Adriatico, rappresenta un tipico esempio della contrapposizione aree montane – aree costiere, espressione di uno squilibrio nello squilibrio e riconducibile alla metafora dell’osso (l’economia...

People’s perception of their own well-being depends on, among other factors, the household level of income and wealth, the respondent’s socio-economic characteristics (sex, age, employment status, etc..) and social capital endowment of household place of residence (Sen A., 1985, The Standard...

I processi di degrado dei suoli sono ascrivibili a diverse cause. Il presente lavoro mira ad evidenziare la tipologia che viene definita in letteratura dei fattori socio-economici. Ricostruendo la storia territoriale della Basilicata, a partire dagli anni cinquanta, con particolare attenzione...

While there is widespread consensus that social capital contributes significantly to development outcomes - growth, equity and poverty alleviation - and that it represents a significant determinant of household well-being, the same cannot be said of its measurement criteria. Different strategies...

The creation of a Free Trade Area is the main pillar on which regionalization in the Mediterranean has been pursued since the establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership in 1995. The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the relation between commercial integration and region-building in...

Le banche dati SCI-WoS e Scopus di proprietà di grosse aziende editoriali permettono di calcolare funzioni bibliometriche, diventate il metro attraverso cui valutare la ricerca scientifica. Gli indicatori citazionali, di proprietà, gratuiti o nati nell’ambito di progetti accademici...

This article focuses on the gender gap in housework and childcare in Italian couples, one of the widest in Europe. Italian women still carry out three-quarters of domestic work and two-thirds of childcare. Following a considerable amount of literature, we focus on three possible theoretical...

Nelle applicazioni finanziarie del metodo Montecarlo e Quasi–Montecarlo, uno dei problemi più comuni è il campionamento da una data distribuzione cumulata. In questo documento, tra i diversi approcci, ci riferiamo al metodo della “Trasformata inversa” e proponiamo un nuovo algoritmo per...

This paper aims to show to what extent self-perceived poverty in Europe is associated with specific household socioeconomic characteristics and particular aspects of household/ community social capital endowment in order to disclose the primary risk factors of family poverty status. Such...

In this work we were interested in investigating the predictive accuracy of one of the most popular learning schemes for the combination of supervised classification methods: the Stacking Technique proposed by Wolpert (1992) and consolidated by Ting and Witten, (1999) and Seewald (2002). In...