[Selling at farmer’s markets: the case of Turin]
Secondo
Rolfo*, Sara Pavone,
Gian Franco Corio
National Research Council
of Italy
CNR-CERIS
Institute for Economic
Research on Firm and Growth
Collegio Carlo Alberto - via
Real Collegio, n. 30
10024 Moncalieri (Torino) – ITALY
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Abstract: Selling directly to consumers is based on a quality convention (Eymard-Duvernay, 1989) related to social relationships, shared values and beliefs (Bénézech et al., 2008). This channel sales, concerning the relationships proximity, reports an increasing relevance on the multifunctional agriculture and on the sustainable production (Rossi et al., 2008).
This study seeks to explore famers’ markets that take place in Turin (capital of the Piedmont region) and changes over time. If in Turin is placed the biggest European open market (Mercato di Porta Palazzo), where farmers have a reserved place historically, new initiatives have been launched in recent years, creating a wider supply.
Keywords: farmers’ markets, selling directly, open air market, multifunctional agriculture, sustainable development.
JEL Codes: Q13
[1] Cet article a été présenté au colloque SFER CCP 2013 “Les circuits courts de proximité. Renouer les liens entre les territoires et la consommation alimentaire” (Paris, 4-5 juin 2013).
Greta Falavigna, Elena Ragazzi* and Lisa Sella
National Research Council
of Italy
Institute for Economic
Research on Firm and Growth
CNR-CERIS Collegio Carlo Alberto - via Real Collegio, n. 30
10024 Moncalieri (Torino) – ITALY
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Abstract: Public policies are even more interested in vocational training issues, because spillovers fall on the labour market, and then on life quality. Reports of the European Commission registered that women are disadvantaged subjects on the labour market but, at the same time, they are more ambitious and are at their best on the educational side. This paper aims at analysing data of Piedmont Region on vocational training policies, focusing on the role of women into the labour market. Data refer to subjects that accomplished their training course during 2011. Analyses have been performed on interviews, in order to evaluate the effects of training on medium-term employment outcomes of trainees. A control sample has been selected with the aim to evaluate the effect of training, with a special focus on women. Probit models and average marginal effects (AMEs) allow authors to estimate the net impact of training into the labour market. Results suggest that the employment gap between men and women is completely recovered in trainees, also when considering qualitative aspects of employment.
Keywords: Vocational training; inequality; gender studies; professional integration; labour market
JEL Codes: I24, I25, I28, J71
[1] A preliminary version of the paper was presented at the XVII Congresso Nazionale AIV, Napoli, 10-11/04/2014
Giuseppe Calabrese
CNR-Ceris, via Real Collegio 30, 10024
Moncalieri (To), Italy
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Dan
Coffey
Leeds
University Business School
University
of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the Plateforme de la Filière Automobile and The British Automotive Council. The two operating structure were established respectively in France and UK to support the national automotive sectors at the dawn of the ongoing crisis. The Italian government is on the way to set up a similar structure. These operating structures can be defined as two instruments of industrial policy introduced in parallel to the classical industrial policy measures allowed by the European Union and that in some ways represent a turning point of the mode of state intervention in the real economy. The challenge is to force different actors to cooperate, not only central government and industry, but more deeply different local authorities and different automotive tiers. In so far as the roles of the different actors are balanced, dissimilar configurations of Triple Helix can be detected and, as a consequence, different evaluations can be deduced.
Keywords: automotive industry, industrial policy, Europe, crisis.
JEL Codes: L52, L62
a Giuseppe Calabrese is senior researcher at CNR-Ceris (National Research Council-Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth) of Moncalieri (Italy) and teaches as visiting professor managerial economics at University of Turin.
b Dan Coffey is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds University Business School. He is the author of The Myth of Japanese Efficiency: The World Car Industry in a Globalising Age (Edward Elgar), and co-author of Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan). He researches auto-producing systems from both technical and social perspectives.
c Tommaso Pardi is Researcher in sociology at the CNRS (IDHE), France, and Deputy Director of the Gerpisa network of research on the car industry
Alessandro Manello[1]
CNR-Ceris, via Real Collegio 30, 10024
Moncalieri (To), Italy
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Giuseppe Calabrese
CNR-Ceris, via Real Collegio 30, 10024
Moncalieri (To), Italy
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Piercarlo
Frigero
University
of Turin, Faulty of Economics, Cso Unione Sovietica 218, Turin (Italy)
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Abstract: This empirical study, focused on the Italian automotive sector during the recent international crisis, detects technical performance of firms using Data Envelopment Analysis. We pay specific attention to the role along the supply chain, to size and to vertical structure of firms. In particular, this study highlights how the recent crisis stimulates a deep process of re-organization, re-location and re-thinking of firms’ position along the value chain but, in particular, the crisis stresses the pre-existing heterogeneity among firms. The technical frontier is driven by firms able to contribute to the technology, which represents essential link of the automotive value chain. Those firms are large, vertically disintegrated and operate in metals, plastic or machinery.
Keywords: Supply chain, Vertical integration, Data Envelopment Analysis, automotive sector.
JEL Codes: L22, L25, L62, O14
Acknowledgments: We thank Secondo Rolfo, Giovanni Zanetti, Davide Vannoni for valuable suggestion, as well the Ansaldo Foundation for the financial support. This paper contains some preliminary results of a research project about the changing roles of firms in new models of supply chain, developed near the CNR-Ceris (Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth of the Italian National Research Council) and the Department of Economics, Statistics and Social Sciences of the University of Turin.
Giovanni
Cerulli
CNR - National Research Council of Italy
CERIS - Institute for Economic Research on Firm and Growth
Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma, ITALY
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Abstract: This paper
presents ctreatreg, a Stata module for estimating a dose-response
function when: (i) treatment is continuous, (ii) individuals may react
heterogeneously to observable confounders, and (iii) selection-into-treatment
may be endogenous. Two estimation procedures are implemented: OLS under
Conditional Mean Independence, and Instrumental-Variables (IV) under selection
endogeneity. A Monte Carlo experiment to test the reliability of the proposed
command is finally set out.
Keywords: Stata commands; treatment effects, dose-response function, continuous treatment, Monte Carlo, R&D support
JEL Codes: C21, C87, D04
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