HYSTERESIS AND THE REGIONAL NAIRUs IN ITALY

This paper investigates the determinants of regional unemployment disparities in Italy. Relying on panel unit root tests and data over the 1977–2003 years, we reject the hysteresis hypothesis and then proceed to estimate the non‐accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for each of the 20 Italian regions. Our estimates of the regional NAIRUs turn out to be fairly precise and allow us to draw two interesting conclusions. First, the hypothesis of constant regional NAIRUs between 1977 and 2003 is supported by the data. Second, we find that there is a significant degree of heterogeneity among the regional NAIRUs.     

西部民族地区商品市场集群发展研究

西部民族地区城乡商品市场集群的发展对促进民族地区的经济增长有着重要的作用。本文在分析市场集群的形成机理的基础上,从城乡二元结构、城乡市场信息不对称、产业链不完善以及市场竞争力弱四个方面分析了西部民族地区发展城乡商品市场集群的困境,并在此基础上提出了促进西部民族地区城乡商品市场集群发展的策略建议。     

1994～2008年西部入境旅游典型省份客流集散时空动态研究——以陕西、四川、云南为例

文章构建了入境游客转移数量模型、入境旅游流空间集中指数模型、入境旅游流转移态矩阵,基于1994～2008年入境旅游统计数据和入境游客抽样调查数据,定量测评陕西、四川、云南三省入境旅游流集聚指数与扩散指数、入境旅游流集聚态指数与扩散态指数;通过时间序列对比,揭示西部三省入境旅游流的空间集散特征与动态变化过程;通过西部三省之间的对比,分析其入境旅游流空间集散的地域差异性。研究表明：四川省入境旅游客流集散能力最强,云南省居中,陕西省最弱;中国入境旅游客流系统是一个＂东部引领西部,西部反作用于东部＂的时空地域格局复杂的动态平衡系统。文章结合历时性分析方法和共时性分析方法,选取西部三省开展入境旅游客流集散时空动态研究,旨在为探索中国西部入境旅游客流集散的时空演变特征与潜在机理提供典型案例。     

农民增收：缩小区域差距的一个视角

农民收入的区域差距比城镇居民收入的区域差距更加突出,从这个角度讲,缩小农民收入的区域差距在缩小地区差距的进程中尤为重要。农民收入的分配状况是一个关系整个社会能否和谐发展的大问题,政府必须担负起应尽的责任,采取有效措施促进农民收入的持续增长。     

经济欠发达地区科技创新模式的比较与选择

科技创新对于一个国家和地区的社会经济发展具有重要影响。文章在梳理科技创新模式的基础上,分析了经济欠发达地区选择原始创新模式所存在的障碍和选择模仿创新可能存在的潜在利益,指出经济欠发达地区在进行模仿创新时需要明确模仿创新与原始创新的关系、注重科技人力资源的培养和开发、确立企业的市场主体地位,创造有利模仿创新的环境,以保障模仿创新模式的顺利进展。     

经济欠发达地区吸引人才的对策探讨

随着经济全球化的发展,人才争夺战也在全球展开.但流出人才的经济欠发达地区一直处于人才竞争劣势.经济发展急需大量人才和区域经济发展不平衡导致大量人才由经济欠发达地区流向发达地区.本文就欠发达地区如何吸引、留住人才做出了一些对策研究,并提出了自己的观点.     

Self-employment and the Okun's law

This research establishes a significant relationship between the share of self-employment in total employment and the Okun's coefficient, which had been insufficiently addressed in the literature. We provide evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment–output relationship in Spanish regions and conclude that the differences in the share of self-employment in total employment prove relevant when accounting for differences in Okun's law, and its effect is greater than that of labour productivity per worker, which had been considered the main factor for regional discrepancies. The economic policy implications of this outcome are valuable for two reasons: European authorities are promoting self-employment and the emergence of the ‘gig economy’. This finding also opens a notable line of research: assessing whether this empirical regularity is observable in other economies.     

From Territorial Cohesion to Regional Spatial Justice: The Well-Being of Future Generations Act in Wales

The European Union's flagship Cohesion Policy faces evidence of dubious economic effectiveness and growing political and philosophical critiques of the very ideals of furthering European integration. This article examines ambitions for territorial cohesion as they have been operationalized through regional development in Wales. We argue that a potential alternative to the failed realization of territorial cohesion lies in the principles of spatial justice. While territorial cohesion has typically emphasized the redistribution of funds to ‘lagging’ regions, spatial justice, as we define it, is premised upon enabling regions to assert their own capacity to act and pursue positive visions of regional futures, consider the implications of space and scale for the achievement of justice, and define well-being, development and the ‘good life’ in ways that reflect regional priorities. We examine three ways in which recent political discourses and policy mechanisms in Wales resonate with these ideals. We focus on attempts to envision a progressive Welsh future, develop alternative spaces and scales of governance, and redefine and pluralize understandings of progress and well-being. The article concludes by reflecting on the practical and conceptual implications of rescaling spatial justice to regional contexts.     

Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework

Within last seventy years, healthcare spending in Europe has grown faster than national income. However, this does not always translate into good health indicators, suggesting a problem of efficiency in different European health systems. This paper analyzes the efficiency of such systems for 185 European regions in 17 countries by grouping them into three clusters according to their institutional setting: regulation, funding and service provision. We investigate their productive performance by adopting a metafrontier framework for exploring the role of technological spillovers. Our findings suggest that the three European health systems show similar efficiency performance; the best performers are regions that have adopted social healthcare insurance; kernel analysis indicates that there is convergence toward a single club in each frontier. Finally, we find a dramatic change in the convergence process after the nancial crisis, with European regions converging toward different groups with different levels of efficiency.     

New regional aviation policy in India: Early indicators and lessons learnt

In this article, we study the new regional aviation policy of India along with data collected on the performance of the scheme since its introduction in 2016. The scheme has multiple objectives. First, it wants to increase footprints of civil aviation to unserved and underserved airports of India. Second, it intends to make flying more affordable. It comes out, the aviation market in the country has expanded due to the addition of new routes under the scheme but data indicates that there is a regional imbalance in the performance of the scheme. Moreover, there are still questions on the long term sustainability of many routes and finding a solution for neglect of some priority regions. We have identified economic and commercial challenges that need to be addressed for the program to achieve its goals. The insights gathered during the study can be generalized and policy makers and managers of remote area air-connectivity schemes of different countries should find them useful.