Deindustrializzazione E Terziarizzazione: Trasformazioni Strutturali Nelle Regioni Del Nord Ovest (Deindustrialization and Tertiarization: Structural Changes in North West Italy)

Accetturo, Antonio; Gigio, Luciana Aimone; Beretta, Enrico; Camussi, Silvia; Cannari, Luigi; Coin, Daniele; Conti, Laura; Cullino, Roberto; Fabbrini, Alessandro; Fabrizi, Cristina; Iuzzolino, Giovanni; Mori, Alessandra; Olivieri, Elisabetta; Orame, Andrea; Mancini, Anna Laura; Mattevi, Elena; Piselli, Paolo; Revelli, Davide; Rossi, Paola; Scalise, Diego; Staderini, Alessandra; Tanzi, Giulia Martina; Vacca, Valerio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2728280

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“…Just like elsewhere, the pressure of trade competition with China has led to decreasing employment and welfare (Federico 2014;Barone and Kreuter 2021;Citino and Linarello 2022), together with other socially relevant problems such as increasing mortality (Adda and Fawaz 2019). The gravity of the phenomenon is enhanced by the fact that -unlike other countries -deindustrialization has not been accompanied by an equivalent conversion into technologically advanced industries or the expansion of the third sector (Accetturo et al 2015).…”

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It Takes a Village: Economic Decay, Rootedness, and Voting

Ciccolini¹

2023

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Drawbacks of deindustrialization are often observed to favor the radical right. Remarkable ethnographic evidence – primarily from the American context – suggests that this is most likely to occur in presence of place-based community rootedness, meaning a particular combination of social capital and place attachment. Yet, research based on quantitative data or considering the European context is much scarcer. To address this gap, I study whether political reactions to deindustrialization – which I analyze in an instrumental variable setting – are more acute in Italian municipalities featuring higher levels of rootedness. To do so, I create a composite indicator of it, by conducting a factor analysis and leveraging a variety of data sources including census and phone directory data. I find that the far right gets an electoral benefit from deindustrialization in municipalities featuring fairly high rootedness levels, while localities with below-average levels are immune to this dynamic. This is not the case of other populist parties. This study contributes to the scholarly understanding of the electoral impact of deindustrialization by shedding light on one possible mechanism leading to a far-right response.

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It Takes a Village: Economic Decay, Rootedness, and Voting

Ciccolini¹

2023

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“…This result is partly explained by the long deindustrialization process occurred mostly in the North‐West provinces. The share of manufacturing over the total economy has constantly decreased in favour of service industries over 2000–2011 (Accetturo et al, 2015). However, the decline in manufacturing production has led to an increase in the share of high‐tech and medium‐low tech industries, while low‐tech productions—such as food, textile, paper and wood industries—contracted.…”

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Low‐skill jobs and routine tasks specialization: New insights from Italian provinces

Brunetti¹,

Intraligi²,

Ricci³

et al. 2020

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper analyses the relationship between the specialization in routine tasks and the growth of low-skill jobs in Italian provinces. At this aim, we use data of the Italian Labour Force survey and map the US information on tasks content by occupation into a detailed (3 digit) classification of Italian occupations. We find two main results. First, the degree of specialization in routine-tasks has a positive effect on the growth of low-skill jobs at province level. Second, the local specialization in routine tasks favours the growth of the graduated workers employed in low-skill jobs and, then, the over-education pattern in Italy. Finally, our findings are robust to spatial heterogeneity and endogeneity issues.

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