Problem
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left-behind places
territorial disadvantage
well-being
social cohesion
European regions
Feeling Left Behind? Territorial Disadvantage, Well-Being and Cohesion across European Regions
🤖 AI Summary
This study addresses the limitations of traditional aggregate indicators in accurately capturing well-being and social cohesion in lagging European regions. For the first time, this project integrates decadal objective territorial indicators with geolocated subjective social media data, employing panel models and multi-source heterogeneous data fusion techniques to analyze well-being disparities and national context effects across over 1,200 regions. The findings demonstrate that conventional aggregate metrics obscure the diversity of territorial disadvantages, revealing a misalignment between intra-regional dynamics and inter-regional disparities. Furthermore, distinct regions exhibit significantly heterogeneous trajectories in well-being and cohesion. By bridging objective and subjective spatial data, this work establishes a novel paradigm for the granular assessment of regional development, offering critical insights into how localized socio-spatial variations are masked by standard macro-level measurements.
📝 Abstract
Left-behind places are usually identified using economic, demographic and accessibility indicators, but these may not align with well-being and social cohesion. We combine ten years of territorial indicators with subjective measures derived from georeferenced social-media data for over 1,200 NUTS-3 regions in 28 European countries (2013-2023). Regional profiles and within-between panel models reveal uneven relationships: disadvantaged regions can display contrasting levels of well-being and cohesion, national context alters cross-country associations, and between-region differences diverge from within-region change. The findings show that aggregate measures conceal distinct forms and trajectories of territorial disadvantage.
Innovation
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georeferenced social-media data
within-between panel models
territorial disadvantage
subjective well-being
NUTS-3 regions
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