The paper focuses on the employment dynamics of the local labour systems of “median” Italy (The Marches, Umbria, Southern Tuscany and Northern Lazio) and covers the period 1991-2006. We use a conceptual framework derived from the Kaldor models of cumulative causation, adopting the classification of industries into “autonomous” and “non-autonomous” engines of growth. The empirical analysis provides a complex and variegated picture of the employment and structural dynamics of the local systems considered. In particular, those local systems characterized in the past by healthy and growing autonomous engines of growth – i.e., able to capture external demand and more exposed to competitive pressures - seem to have experienced, in the most recent years, a relatively faster employment growth based on a balanced sectoral structure (proper mix of autonomous and non-autonomous sectors).
I Motori dello Sviluppo Locale nell'Italia Mediana
BRACALENTE, Bruno;PERUGINI, CRISTIANO;POMPEI, Fabrizio
2010
Abstract
The paper focuses on the employment dynamics of the local labour systems of “median” Italy (The Marches, Umbria, Southern Tuscany and Northern Lazio) and covers the period 1991-2006. We use a conceptual framework derived from the Kaldor models of cumulative causation, adopting the classification of industries into “autonomous” and “non-autonomous” engines of growth. The empirical analysis provides a complex and variegated picture of the employment and structural dynamics of the local systems considered. In particular, those local systems characterized in the past by healthy and growing autonomous engines of growth – i.e., able to capture external demand and more exposed to competitive pressures - seem to have experienced, in the most recent years, a relatively faster employment growth based on a balanced sectoral structure (proper mix of autonomous and non-autonomous sectors).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
