Urban crisis vs. urban success in the era of 4.0 technologies: Baumol's model revisited

Camagni, Roberto; Capello, Roberta; Lenzi, Camilla; Perucca, Giovanni

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“…Table 3 helps shedding light on the interplay among these dimensions, even if results show a quite heterogeneous picture, depending on the individual and city-level variables and domains of city life considered. In detail, living in top-rank cities augments discontent with most of city life domains, with the exclusion of job opportunities, public transport, and cultural facilities, confirming the role of big cities as a consumption locus [32][33][34] , as a matching mechanism for labor demand and supply, and as a transport node 3 . Importantly, results suggest that the negative effects of interpersonal inequalities cumulate with the one of living in toprank cities when considering discontent with respect to the city of residence in general, the level of social capital in the city, the quality of greenspaces and the environment and, finally, public services in terms of health and sport facilities.…”

Section: Inequalities and Discontent For Different Domains Of Lifementioning

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Economic inequalities and discontent in European cities

Lenzi

Perucca

2023

npj Urban Sustain

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This paper reconsiders a stylized fact of the literature on the relationship between urbanization and subjective well-being, the urban well-being paradox, i.e., the densest settings typically show the highest level of individual discontent. By drawing on an original sample based on more 50,000 individuals in 83 cities of the 27 member states of the European Union plus the UK, the paper highlights three main results. First, bigger cities are characterized by intrinsically higher inequalities than smaller ones, suggesting a scaling of disparities: interpersonal inequalities represent an often-overlooked cause of urbanization diseconomies. Second, compositional effects on discontent are particularly detrimental in cities, suggesting a scaling of discontent. Moreover, compositional and contextual characteristics mix in cities, amplifying the negative effect of inequalities especially for the most fragile social groups. Third, discontent with life and discontent with specific domains of city life do not always go in tandem. Nevertheless, the advantages of largest cities seem especially a benefit for élite individuals.

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Section: Inequalities and Discontent For Different Domains Of Lifementioning

confidence: 97%

Economic inequalities and discontent in European cities

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Perucca

2023

npj Urban Sustain

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Firm cooperation policies: the impact of territorial spillovers

Caragliu,

Landoni

2024

Ann Reg Sci

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Research on program evaluation, and in particular on firm cooperation policies, has been scant on the impact of space-specific characteristics on program impacts. Few studies have analyzed how spatial features, that are sticky and non-mobile, may affect the intensity of a program’s effect on the targeted economic outcome. This paper uses a regional program (ERGON1) aimed at fostering the creation of Network Contracts to shed light on the contribution of spatial features to policy effectiveness. Network Contracts have been introduced in Italy with Law 9 April 2009, N. 33 to stimulate the formation of firm aggregations and to increase economic efficiency for network members. Empirical results, using Propensity Score Matching Estimates, suggest a positive and causative relation between membership in a Network Contract and firm productivity. Furthermore, evidence suggests that matching for urban characteristics significantly improves matching quality. Evidence is thus provided on the relevance of spatial features in shaping the returns to policies, thereby suggesting that ignoring such features may provide a biased picture of the true effect of a program.

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Unveiling the automation—wage inequality nexus within and across regions

Capello,

Ciappei,

Lenzi

2024

Ann Reg Sci

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Since the1800s, automation technologies have been interpreted as a source of displacement effects, largely conceptualised and empirically proved in a vast literature. This paper claims that, despite their non-manufacturing nature, metropolitan regions are not exempted by the negative effects of automation on wage inequalities across workers’ groups. The paper empirically proves this statement by analysing the effects on jobs and wage differentials among groups of workers associated with the diffusion of robot technologies in Italian NUTS3 regions in the period 2012–2019. Results show that automation technologies in the form of robotisation do displace jobs, harming particularly low-skilled workers in non-metropolitan manufacturing regions, where inter-group wage inequalities increase. However, through the creation of high-skilled jobs, also cities experience a rise of inter-group workers inequalities. These results call for appropriate policies to cope with the changing occupational profiles requested by the labour market.

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Urban crisis vs. urban success in the era of 4.0 technologies: Baumol's model revisited

Cited by 7 publications

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Economic inequalities and discontent in European cities

Economic inequalities and discontent in European cities

Firm cooperation policies: the impact of territorial spillovers

Unveiling the automation—wage inequality nexus within and across regions

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