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Introduction

In: The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New Regional Geography of Europe?

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  • Floro Ernesto Caroleo

    (Università di Napoli Parthenope)

  • Francesco Pastore

    (Seconda Università di Napoli)

Abstract

The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate on the continuity/fracture of regional patterns of development and employment in old and new European Union (EU) regions. Several contributions in this book suggest that a factor common to all backward regions, often neglected in the literature, is their higher than average degree of structural change or, more precisely, the hardship they experience in coping with the process of structural change. In particular, contributions of the volume address the following questions: 1) How did structural change affect the distribution of income growth rates and employment opportunities across regions? 2) After about twenty years from the onset of transition do regional indicators tend to converge or diverge? 3) Did migration make spatial imbalances reduce or increase, as an increasing number of observers claim? 4) What policy tools have been used to fight regional imbalances? Were they adequate to the purpose? The book chapters capture the main issues under discussion, while also providing a comprehensive set of theoretical and econometric methodologies used in the field of contemporary regional economic research.

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  • Floro Ernesto Caroleo & Francesco Pastore, 2010. "Introduction," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Floro Ernesto Caroleo & Francesco Pastore (ed.), The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New Regional Geography of Europe?, edition 1, chapter 1, pages 1-13, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:04-01
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    Keywords

    Regional Inequality; Structural Change; Active Labour Market Policy; Transition from Plan to Market; Mezzogiorno.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
    • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • L72 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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