The mechanical industry in Italy 1951-2001
L'industria meccanica in Italia. Analisi spaziale delle specializzazioni produttive 1951-2001, pagina web dell'editore.
Introduzione
1. Differenze territoriali e specializzazioni nell’industria meccanica in Italia. Un’analisi cluster dei dati censuari 1991 e 2001
2. Dinamica spaziale dell’occupazione nei macrosettori e nei cluster dell’industria meccanica in Italia, 1951-2001
3. Agglomerazione spaziale dell’industria metalmeccanica italiana, 1981-2001. Aspetti teorici e implicazioni per l’analisi empirica
4. Le specializzazioni meccaniche in Italia, 1981-2001
5. L’occupazione metalmeccanica nei sistemi di piccola e media impresa. Shift-share 1981-2001
6. Le esportazioni metalmeccaniche dell’Italia, 1991-2004
7. I distretti industriali italiani a specializzazione metalmeccanica dalle origini agli anni Novanta
Appendice. Fonti dei dati e classificazioni delle attivitą economiche
Riferimenti bibliografici
The analysis of the changes in the spatial configuration of mechanical specializations in Italy, after World War II, was conducted during the Metalnet research as a complementary project, coordinated by Margherita Russo with the collaboration of Sandra Paterlini, Elena Pirani and Alberto Rinaldi.
The results of the research were published in the volume “The mechanical industry in Italy. Spatial analysis of production specializations 1951-2001”, (Carocci, PressonLine, Rome, 2008), which can also be downloaded for free from the publisher's website.
Using census data from mechanical employment in local labour systems, it can be studied the dynamic of territorial transformations through cluster and shift-share analysis from 1981 to 2001. The results of these analyses show, in the northern regions, significant advantages of spatial agglomeration deriving from a growing integration between mechanical specializations and between these and the manufacturing transformation activities. New local systems with a mechanical specialization were also identified in the South.
The volume also presents a description of the geographical orientation of the mechanical exports of the main provinces.
It ends with a comparison of small and medium-sized mechanical engineering systems (in the provinces of Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia and Brescia) that characterized the model of development of the Italian economy in the second half of the twentieth century.
Index
Introduction
by Margherita Russo
1. Territorial differences and specializations in the mechanical industry in Italy. A cluster analysis of the census data from 1991 to 2001
by Sandra Paterlini, Elena Pirani and Margherita Russo
1.1. Premise
1.2. Methodological aspects: data, territorial units, specialization
1.3. Cluster analysis on the Italian mechanical industry
1.4. Cluster analysis on the LLS of 1991 and 2001: a comparison
1.5. Conclusions
2. Spatial dynamics of employment in the macro-sectors and clusters of the mechanical industry in Italy, 1951-2001
by Margherita Russo
2.1. Premise
2.2. Employment in macro-sectors and macro-regions
2.3. Mechanichal employment in macro-regions
2.4. Dynamics of employment in cluster 1951-2001
3. Space agglomeration of the Italian metalworking industry, 1981-2001. Theoretical aspects and implications for empirical analysis
by Elena Pirani and Margherita Russo
3.1. Premise: skills networks, spill over, spatial agglomeration
3.2. The spatial agglomeration index of Ellison and Glaeser
3.3. Statistical sources and metodological problems
3.4. Comparison between the estimates of the advantages of spatial agglomeration: data for LLS and by province
3.5. Spatial agglomeration in the mechanical industry in Italy, 1981-2001: results by province
3.6. Spatial agglomeration in the mechanical industry in Italy, 1981-2001: results by sector and cluster of LLS
3.7. Conclusions
3.8. Appendix
4. Mechanical specializations in Italy, 1981-2001
by Margherita Russo
4.1. Premise
4.2. Change in mechanical employment in Italy in the LLS cluster: 1981-2001
4.3. Change in employment by sector and type of LLS: 1981-2001
5. Metalworking in small and medium-sized business systems. Shift-share 1981-2001
by Elena Pirani and Margherita Russo
5.1. Premise
5.2. Analysis tools of territorial differences: the localization coefficient, the specialization index, the shift-share analysis
5.3. Results of the shift-share analysis: the mechanical specialization according to ISTAT
5.4. Provinces and clusters of LLS
5.5. Concluding remarks
5.6. Appendix
6. Metalworking exports from Italy, 1991-2004
by Margherita Russo
6.1. Premeise
6.2. Exports to Italy in 2001:data by province
6.3. Mechanical exports: 1991-2004
6.4. Exports of Italy and the province of Modena, by country of destination: 1991-2004
6.5. Exports of the main mechanical sectors: 1991-2004
6.6. Mechanical exports and employment: 1991 e 2001
6.7. Conclusions
7. Italian industrial clusters with a metallurgical specialization from the origins to the Nineties
by Alberto Rinaldi
7.1. Premise
7.2. The metalworking industry in Bologna
7.3. The metalwoking industry in Modena
7.4. The metalworking industry in Reggio Emilia
7.5. The metalworking industri in Brescia
7.6. Conclusions
Appendix. Data sources and classifications of economic activities
by Elena Pirani
1. Data sources
2. Censuses of 1951-2001: harmonization of the classification of economic activities
Bibliographic references