Gian Pietro Zaccomer

A new spatial shift-share decomposition for the regional growth analysis: a local study of the employment based on Italian Business Statistical Register

This paper presents a new shift-share model to decompose the employment growth rate of a territorial unit by taking into consideration the association between industry mix and firm legal status effects measured in its neighborhood. We explicitly consider this kind of association to go beyond the problem of asymmetry found in a previous work. The empirical application refers to the data collected in the Italian Business Statistical Register and, in particular, regional employment figures in Friuli Venezia Giulia (NUTS2 level), for 219 territorial units (LAU2 level) and 12 Local Labour Systems (LLS), for the years 2001 and 2004.

Flickr as a Tool for the Analysis of Photographic Tourism: The Estimation of Geotagging Rate and Its Use for Mapping the World

The current digital revolution has a strong impact on the people life and on the research process in most of the scientific areas. Geography and cartography have been invested by the innovation connected with GIS. Moreover, they reacted to the new opportunities given by the new web applications founded on the dynamic paradigm of Web 2.0. In the geographic framework the possibility to self-supply the online contents brought to the Volunteered Geographic Information phenomenon. This study presents a number of preliminary results of a project aimed at reformulating the theoretical framework of Photographic Tourism. The research focuses on the integration of social media and web mapping as an application of neogeography. The estimation (based on a sample) of the proportion of geotagged photos loaded on Flickr during 2016 and the analysis of the spatial distribution of the considered sample are the main objectives of the paper.

Competitività della vitivinicoltura di qualità: la doc "Collio"

The international market of wine has been characterized by growing competition, expecially in recent years. Wine is one of the main agroalimentary products for Italian export. From wine export depends Italian balance of trade. In this context, the study aims to identify the role of quality wine, which is strongly linked to the geographical location. In fact, this relation seems to be a strong tool in favour of international competition. To this purpose we will describe the multifunctional role of wine growing in a specific area, the Collio, in Italy. Then we will analyse the chosen data set. The data were collected by quality wine producers that are partner of a Consortium. The Consortium safeguards and attests the quality of wine production. Finally, in order to study the data we used descriptive statistics and the twostep cluster analysis technique of spss®. The use of twostep analysis represented a first exploratory application of appropriate statistical techniques to study the relationship among some variables. This technique alongside models of wine producers behaviour permits the analyst to explore wine production segmentation by describing different types of wine producers strategies. Each group was characterised by common behavioural features, which we have outlined below. By observing the clusters of wine producers, we noted that: i) group 1: it was the largest; it was characterized by wine producers which used little or enough promotion, that encouraged the regional Consortium creation and had low regional market for their products (max 25%); ii) group 2: it was characterized by little or enough promotion; some of the wine producers of this group supported the regional Consortium creation, while others were not likely to encouraged it; it was characterized by middle-high regional market quota (more than 25%); iii) group 3: it was the smallest; its wine producers used a lot promotion; there was not a homogeneous support in favour of regional Consortium creation; regional market quota was low (max 25%); iv) group 4: it was similar to group 1, but there was an important difference as regards regional Consortium, in fact, it did not encouraged its creation; it had low regional market quota (max 25%). The information we collected was sufficient to construct a market segmentation model. This type of examination seems to be very useful to wine producers. In fact, it give them the opportunity to understand the strategies of their competitors. Undoubtedly, the data collected allowed us to analyse the role of local territory and the importance of local identity to typical products. Such analysis has become increasingly important for the wine sector, in which there is a specific institution - the Consortium - that has the duty to guarantee and promote mark guaranteeing quality. The Consortium gives wine producers the opportunity to increase the knowledge of consumers about the wine quality. From the data collected we observed the importance of Consortium to wine producers. At the same time, it is generally acknowledged that it is fundamental for wineries to promote local territory to increase the value of its products. Nevertheless, only bigger wine producers hope for the development of territorial brand and the cooperation among several stakeholders.

Enterprises and markets of quality wines : an evaluation in Collio

The international market of wine has been characterized by growing competition, expecially in recent years (OIV, 2008). Wine is one of the main agroalimentary products for Italian export. From wine export depends Italian balance of trade. In this context, the study aims to identify the role of quality wine, which is strongly linked to the geographical location. In fact, this relation seems to be a strong tool in favour of international competition.