By 2011, the gap, or disparity in employment rates across the 10 provinces, was at its lowest level and was not very different from the dispersion of employment rates across the United States (Chart 25). 8 In a geographically large, knowledge-based economy, these are important advantages. To regear, we need to build on them.
See V. Aprigliano, G. Bruno, S. Emiliozzi, S. Marchetti, J. Marcucci, and D. Nicoletti, ‘Neural Networks for Macroeconomic Forecasting’, Bank of Italy Workshop on Big data & Machine Learning Applications for Central banks, October 2019. See M. Accornero and M. Moscatelli, ‘Listening to the buzz: social media sentiment and retail depositors’ trust’, Banca d’Italia, Temi di Discussione (Working Papers), 1165, 2018.