Widening Differences in Italian Regional Unemployment

A spatial analysis on Italian unemployment differences

Using spatial econometric models, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of provincial unemployment disparities of Italian provinces for the year 2003. On the basis of findings from the economic literature and of the available socio-economic data, various model specifications including supplyand demandside variables are tested. Further we use ESDA analysis as equivalent to integr...

Human Capital and the Regional Italian Development: Does Unemployment matter?

In this paper contrary to several empirical contributions we report a positive and significant influence of schooling investment on the long run growth of the Italian regions in the period 1963-1995. This result is obtained when the unemployment rate is added as an additional controlling dimension. In the theoretical part of the paper we propose a growth model that could account for these empir...

Widening Regional Disparities in India

Indian economy has been experiencing an average annual rate of growth of around 6 per cent since the early 1980s. Though, moderate compared to the performance of several east Asian economies during the same period, this was quite impressive compared to the performance of Indian economy during the preceding three decades when the average growth logged 3.5 per cent per annum. In terms of per capi...

Spatial dependence in regional unemployment in Australia

Regional Economic Differences in Iran Theory and Evidence

Increasing concern over the regional dimensions of national economic planning since 1970s, has constituted appropriate baselines for scientific analysis of regional differences The Iranian planning views in the pre and post revolution era have been examined in this article, based on both theoretical and applied study of regional differences. Then the types and degrees of convergency and/or dive...