naa a22 4500 510741878 CHVBK 20180411083031.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11482-012-9180-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11482-012-9180-z Well-Being Indicators and Convergence Across Italian Regions [Elektronische Daten] [Antonella Ferrara, Rosanna Nisticò] This article studies convergence across Italian regions by means of two composite indicators of socio-economic progress reflecting the multidimensional nature of human well-being. The first composite indicator includes, other than household disposable income in Italy, two sub-indicators regarding health and education; the second composite indicator considers, in addition to those considered by the former, three further sub-indicators relating to the quality of the socio-institutional context, age and gender disparities in the labor market and regional competitiveness. The data base of the 17 variables or indexes used to construct the six abovementioned sub-indicators cover the period from 1998 to 2008. We assess the existence of both σ and γ- convergence; the latter computed by means of Kendall′s index. Consistent with the findings in other European countries that also use composite economic and quality of life indicators we find evidence of regional σ-convergence in well-being, but do not observe significant processes of intra-distributional mobility. In other words, while dispersion across Italian regions in terms of well-being levels declined in the period, the regional ranking remained substantially unchanged. Springer Science+Business Media B.V./The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), 2012 Well-being indicators nationallicence σ -convergence nationallicence γ -convergence nationallicence Italian regions nationallicence Ferrara Antonella Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, 87036, Rende, Italy aut Nisticò Rosanna Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, 87036, Rende, Italy aut Applied Research in Quality of Life Springer Netherlands 8/1(2013-03-01), 15-44 1871-2584 8:1<15 2013 8 11482 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-012-9180-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-012-9180-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferrara Antonella Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, 87036, Rende, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nisticò Rosanna Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, 87036, Rende, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Research in Quality of Life Springer Netherlands 8/1(2013-03-01), 15-44 1871-2584 8:1<15 2013 8 11482 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer