Italy has been characterized, throughout its unitary history, by large regional differentials in
income, level of industrialization, and development. This article aims at testing the New …

Italy became politically unified between 1859 and 1870, after three independence wars and
a military campaign known as the Expedition of the Thousand. At the time of unification, the …

What accounts for the differences in the economic performance across Italian regions in the
post-Unification period? This thesis seeks to explain the regional patterns of economic …

This paper deals with industrialization in Italy between 1871 and 2001, and is based on data
on the labour force per province (NUTS 3) from population censuses. Particular attention is …

The well known Italian dualism in terms of development disparities between the North and
the South has been one of the most debated issues in economics over the last few decades …

This article presents value added estimates for the Italian regions, in benchmark years 1891–
1951, which are linked to those from official figures available from 1971 on, in order to offer a …

This paper explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the
Italian economy since unification. It argues that the advantage of the North was initially …

The particular development of the Italian regional disparities and North–South inequality is
correlated with the structural change which came about during the process of …

The conventional wisdom about the early stages of modern economic growth in Italy is still
heavily influenced by Cafagna in his book Dualismo e sviluppo nella storia d'Italia (Padova …

This chapter explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the
Italian economy since unification. It argues that the advantage of the North was initially …