Regional economic resilience: the experience of the Italian local labor systems

Faggian, Alessandra; Gemmiti, Roberta; Jaquet, Timothy; Santini, Isabella

doi:10.1007/s00168-017-0822-9

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“…This shows that municipalities linked to agriculture have been probably more sheltered from the global economic crisis. Similar results have been found in Faggian, Gemmiti, Jaquet, and Santini (2018) in the case of Italian regions who explain this positive relation to resilience by the fact that food is a very inelastic good. 11 Regarding the diversity of the local economic structure, the results show that greater diversity of employment-as reflected by the negative coefficient for the Herfindahl 10 Martin and Sunley (2015) highlight, for example, financial and governance arrangements as important determinants of regional economic resilience together with the industrial and business structure and labour market conditions.…”

Section: Local Industrial Structuresupporting

confidence: 87%

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Holl

2018

Journal of Regional Science

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The 2008 financial and economic crisis has led to widespread destruction of employment in Spain. Using municipality data, I examine employment growth differences between urban cores, urban hinterlands, and rural areas during the pre‐crisis period and the recession period. The data show that patterns of growth and decline have been very uneven across different types of areas. While in the boom years, hinterlands and rural areas experienced higher growth, urban core areas have done better during the recession years. I then test three strands of explanations for local growth differences: (i) the role of the local sectoral composition, (ii) the role of human capital, and (iii) the role of access to urban core areas. Estimations for employment growth in the two periods show that the crisis has altered some of the drivers of local employment growth and that human capital has been a key determinant of local resilience during the Great Recession.

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Section: Local Industrial Structuresupporting

confidence: 87%

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Holl

2018

Journal of Regional Science

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“…Empirical research on short‐term shock often focused on these two components and found some interesting results. Pudelko, Hundt, and Holtermann () found a possible negative relationship between regional resistance and recovery in German regions during the Great Recession of 2008/2009, while Faggian et al () found that there is no significant correlation between resistance and recovery in Italy.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relationship between resistance and recoverability was a controversial issue and caused some debate. Faggian et al () found that there was no significant correlation between resistance and recovery; Martin, Sunley, Gardiner, and Tyler () found that there has been a positive relationship between resistance and recoverability across regions in UK; while Tan et al () found that they had a strong negative correlation in Northeast China. In short, economic resilience in terms of the global economic crisis has sparked wide‐ranging debate in Europe and other Western countries, however, the research of economic resilience in China especially on Chinese old industrial cities and RBCs was still very limited.…”

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confidence: 99%

Regional economic resilience of resource‐based cities and influential factors during economic crises in China

Tan

Fang-dao

et al. 2019

Growth and Change

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Resource‐based cities (RBCs) whose economies depend primarily on exploiting and processing natural resources usually have rigid, singular, and low‐end industrial structures, which often cripples their ability to cope with external disturbances such as international resource price fluctuations and economic downturns. This paper quantitatively analyzes the economic resilience of RBCs in China in terms of resistance and recoverability during the Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis. Furthermore, it identifies the main factors affecting resilience. There are four main findings: First, RBCs were quickly and negatively impacted by the Asian financial crisis, which suggests that economic resistance was generally low during this period. In the recovery period, while the rate of recovery was slow at the beginning, economic recoverability improved after 2002. Economic resistance and recoverability were found to have a strong negative correlation. Second, at the beginning of the global financial crisis, the economic resistance of RBCs was generally high. However, after 2012, the number of cities that were severely affected by the economic crisis increased rapidly. Third, economic resistance varied across different types of RBCs. Coal‐based and forestry‐based cities had lower economic resistance, while oil & gas‐based cities were more resistant. RBCs in the Eastern region generally had low economic resistance, while the economic resilience of recessionary cities was also low. Finally, while factors affecting the economic resilience varied across the two economic cycles, we found that economic development, labor conditions and, most of all, the industrial structure had a statistically significant negative effect on economic resilience.

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“…In fact, urban economic approaches adopting cities' delineation composed of an aggregation of localities, are restrained by the poverty of urban data to build economic resilience indicators [28,90]. Others argue, that functional criterion is much more important when distinguishing regions, particularly considering employment rate, even if the data acquisition is more complicated [95]. In doing so, Faggian [95] proposed the so called "local labor systems" that are based on the commuting between residence and workplaces and often cross administrative boundaries.…”

Section: Regional Resilience Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Rogov

Rozenblat

2018

Sustainability

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This study aims to understand the current state of research in urban resilience, its relations to urban sustainability and to integrate several distinct approaches into a multi-level perspective of cities comprising micro, meso and macro levels and their interactions. In fact, based on the meta-analysis of nearly 800 papers from Scopus from 1973 to 2018, we show that urban resilience discourses address micro and meso levels, considering shocks of bottom-up origin such as natural disasters. In contrast, the regional resilience approach addresses meso and macro levels (regional and global scales), considering shocks of top-down origin such as world economic crises. We find these approaches complementary and argue that in order to expand the urban resilience theory and overcome its limitations, they should be combined. For that purpose we propose a multi-level perspective that integrates both top-down and bottom-up dynamic processes. We argue that urban resilience is shaped by the synchronicity of adaptive cycles on three levels: micro, meso and macro. To build the multi-level approach of dynamics of adaptive cycles we use the panarchy framework.

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Regional economic resilience: the experience of the Italian local labor systems

Cited by 182 publications

References 27 publications

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Regional economic resilience of resource‐based cities and influential factors during economic crises in China

Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

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