Up to now, the analyses of the current "Great Recession" have been mainly confined to the national and international scale leaving aside the differential effects of the crisis upon regions and smaller areas. Although the current crisis has a strong international and global flavor, it must be...

The aim of this paper is to examine interregional interactions in public expenditure (for NUTS I and NUTS II level regions) using a new database on Italian Regional Public Accounts (RPA) over the period 1996-2007. Intergovernmental interactions are particularly important for assessing the impact...

Up to now, the analyses of the current "Great Recession" have been mainly confined to the national and international scale leaving aside the differential effects of the crisis upon regions and smaller areas. Although the current crisis has a strong international and global flavor, it must be...

Activity-geospatial approach forms methodological basis of the concept of geospatial self-organization of a society as new theoretical paradigm of societal geography (SG) with next main principles: a) Self-organization of society and its key subsystems (economical, social, political, spiritual)...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on the accumulation of human capital in the US. Using a simple theoretical framework, we illustrate how advances in automation are expanding the share of individuals who enroll in college, as college-educated workers are less exposed to the...

This paper investigates the effect of tourism shocks on the educational choices and the geographical sorting of workers in Italy. We exploit exogenous variation in tourism flows using a shift-share measure which leverages on shocks to the perceived safety in alternative tourism destinations and...