Divario digitale e trappola della povertà: evidenza dalle province italiane
Journal title ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE
Author/s Antonio Acconcia, Otello Ardovino, Alfredo Del Monte
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/1
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 55-81 File size 270 KB
DOI 10.3280/POLI2012-001003
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The paper uses an original dataset to analyse the distribution of broadband take-up in the Italian provinces. Although the results should be approached with caution, from the perspective of cause-and-effect interpretation, we point out the interesting fact that broadband technology take-up is highly correlated to factors of wealth, level of education and degree of concentration of the offering, even after checking the demographic and typical morphology of the provinces. The first two factors would justify the alarm voiced by those commentators who fear the emergence of a new form of social inequality, driven by easy access to the new-generation of services available through the Internet.
Keywords: Telecommunications, broadband, competition, diffusion, digital divide, Italian provinces
Jel codes: L96, C21, I3, H54
Antonio Acconcia, Otello Ardovino, Alfredo Del Monte, Divario digitale e trappola della povertà: evidenza dalle province italiane in "ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE " 1/2012, pp 55-81, DOI: 10.3280/POLI2012-001003