The origins of the Italian North-South divide have always been controversial. We fill this gap
by estimating a new dataset of real wages (Allen 2001; Allen et al. 2011) from Unification …

information on wages has never been exploited in the longlasting debate on north-south
disparities in italy in the aftermath of the national Unification. the present article is based on …

This paper investigates the role played by public capital on the production level of Italian
regions by specifically accounting for the quality of institutions. Our analysis, carried out over …

This study presents new urban and rural annual wage series for the South of Italy before the
unification. The use of annual wages overcomes the intrinsic biases of daily wages and …

This paper aims to provide a synthesis of a number of articles that over the last few years
have explored the industrialization process in Spain from the perspective of the new …

In Italy, both at the regional and sub-regional levels, labour productivity and average wages
are strongly correlated. Overall, in industry and services, the gap (about 30%) in productivity …

This paper uses the 'access orders' paradigm developed by North, Wallis, and Weingast
[(2009). Violence and social order: A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human …

The available approaches for measuring accessibility are rigid and complex in nature, and
mostly impractical for decision-makers as they require a large number of data, logistics …

This article aims to explain the location of the manufacturing industries in Italy in the period
1871–1911. The analytical framework takes into account of two competing theories on the …

The process of industrialization has been validated by economic theory and empirical
investigation as one of the fundamental and long-run channel of altering the basic dynamics …