Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment disparities of Italian provinces. On the basis of findings...

Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...

The outer islands in Indonesia are often seen as the main source of migrants to the island of Java, while

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools to promote and realize a variety of public goals and policies. The growing importance of ICT in daily life, business activities and govemance prompts the need to consider the role of ICT more explicitIy in urban...

It is clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught with uncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors that can develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to gain insight into the future development of the transportation sector. It presents the development of...