Employment Growth in Italian Local Labour Systems: Issues of Model Specification and Sectoral Aggregation

Mameli, Francesca; Faggian, Alessandra; McCann, Philip

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“…Employment data are taken from the Italian Census of Industries and Services and include 46 two-digit manufacturing and service sectors. Similar results have been found when using other measures of diversity like the Herfindahl index and its modifications (Mameli et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 74%

Testing and Explaining Economic Resilience with an Application to Italian Regions

2014

SSRN Journal

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This paper studies regional economic resilience by exploiting the properties of the nonlinear smooth-transition autoregressive model. A testing procedure to distinguish between engineering and ecological resilience is presented, and a measurement of economic resilience is provided. Regional differences in economic resilience are explained by the presence of spatial interactions and by adopting a set of determinants like economic diversity, export performance, financial constraints, and human and social capital. An empirical investigation is conducted for analysing regional employment evolution in Italy from 1992 to 2012. Some concluding suggestions propose possible future areas of research.

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Section: Data Descriptionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Testing and Explaining Economic Resilience with an Application to Italian Regions

2014

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“…Diversity is also found to have a significant positive impact in Italy according to Mameli et al (2008).…”

Section: Total Employment Specialisation Diversity and Human Capitalmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…A further example of the difficulty of interpreting the findings of this literature is given by Mameli et al (2008) who show from Italian data that the effect of most local determinants on local employment is not very robust, in the sense that their sign changes depending on the industrial classification which is used.…”

Section: Total Employment Specialisation Diversity and Human Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Blien et al (2006), who extend Blien and Suedekum (2005), obtain for Germany that local market size plays a positive role on industrial employment growth both for manufacturing and service activities. There are two recent studies on Italy, one that pools together manufacturing and service industries (Mameli et al, 2008) and one that focuses on business services (Micucci and Giacinto, 2009). Both conclude that total employment has a positive impact on industrial employment growth.…”

Section: Total Employment Specialisation Diversity and Human Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Combes¹,

Gobillon²

2015

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

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The empirics of agglomeration economies* We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and workers' endogenous location choices. We emphasise the impact of local density on productivity but we also consider many other local determinants supported by theory. Empirical issues are then addressed. Most important concerns are about endogeneity at the local and individual levels, the choice of a productivity measure between wage and TFP, and the roles of spatial scale, firms' characteristics, and functional forms. Estimated impacts of local determinants of productivity, employment, and firms' locations choices are surveyed for both developed and developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms.JEL Classification: J31, R12 and R23

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“…Although employment has its faults as an indicator of performance, 3 it is an outcome that is appropriate at the scale of regions rather than individual firms and that is highly relevant to policy-makers. Examining employment permits comparison with a large segment of the recent literature (for example, COMBES et al, 2004;BLIEN et al, 2006;MAMELI et al, 2008;FUCHS, 2011).…”

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An Evaluation of Competitive Industrial Structure and Regional Manufacturing Employment Change

Drucker

2013

Regional Studies

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DRUCKER J. An evaluation of competitive industrial structure and regional manufacturing employment change, Regional Studies. This paper examines the relationship between regional industrial structure and employment change in the manufacturing sector and nineteen subsectors in the United States from 1987 to 1997. The relative associations of economic diversity, industrial specialization and competitive structure with economic performance are assessed using a non-causal regression framework. Multiple facets of industrial structure at the regional scale, including competitive structure, are considered together by exploiting confidential microdata to construct and evaluate detailed metrics across broad geographic and industrial ranges. The findings suggest the importance of industrial competitive structure for understanding regional employment change, economic performance and industrial development.DRUCKER J. Une évaluation de la structure industrielle compétitive et la variation de l'emploi régional dans le secteur de la fabrication, Regional Studies. Cet article examine le rapport entre la structure industrielle régionale et la variation de l'emploi dans le secteur de la fabrication et dans dix-neuf sous-secteurs aux États-Unis entre 1987 et 1997. À partir d'un cadre de régression non causal, on évalue le rapport relatif de la diversité économique, de la spécialisation industrielle et de la structure compétitive à la performance économique. On considère ensemble les multiples facettes de la structure industrielle à l'échelle régionale, y compris la structure compétitive, en exploitant des micro-données confidentielles pour construire et évaluer des mesures détaillées à travers de vastes gammes géographiques et industrielles. Les résultats suggèrent l'importance de la structure compétitive industrielle pour comprendre la variation de l'emploi régional, la performance économique et le développement industriel. Structure industrielleDiversité Fabrication Concurrence Spécialisation Développement économique DRUCKER J. Bewertung der industriellen Wettbewerbsstruktur und der Veränderungen bei der regionalen Beschäftigungsquote im produzierenden Sektor, Regional Studies. In diesem Beitrag wird die Beziehung zwischen der regionalen Branchenstruktur und den Veränderungen bei der Beschäftigungsquote im produzierenden Sektor sowie in 19 Subsektoren in den USA im Zeitraum von 1987 bis 1997 untersucht. Mit Hilfe eines nichtkausalen Regressionsrahmens werden die jeweiligen Beziehungen zwischen wirtschaftlicher Vielfalt, Branchenspezialisierung und Wettbewerbsstruktur einerseits und der Wirtschaftsleistung andererseits analysiert. Die vielfältigen Facetten der Branchenstruktur auf regionaler Ebene, einschließlich der Wettbewerbsstruktur, werden gemeinsam berücksichtigt, indem vertrauliche Mikrodaten zur Entwicklung und Bewertung von detaillierten Maßstäben für ein breites Spektrum von geografischen und industriellen Bereichen genutzt werden. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen die Wichtigkeit einer industriellen Wettbewerbsstruktur für d...

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Employment Growth in Italian Local Labour Systems: Issues of Model Specification and Sectoral Aggregation

Cited by 41 publications

References 28 publications

Testing and Explaining Economic Resilience with an Application to Italian Regions

Testing and Explaining Economic Resilience with an Application to Italian Regions

The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

An Evaluation of Competitive Industrial Structure and Regional Manufacturing Employment Change

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