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Structural Funds and Regional Convergence: Some Sectoral Estimates for Italy

In: Geographical Labor Market Imbalances

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  • Gianluigi Coppola

    (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

  • Sergio Destefanis

    (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

Abstract

In this chapter, we assess the European Structural Funds’ effects on the economies of the 20 Italian administrative regions for the period 1989–2006. The principal novelties of this chapter are that the empirical analysis separately considers the effects on four sectors (agriculture, energy and manufacturing, construction, and services), and we employ a non-parametric FDH-VP to calculate Malmquist productivity indexes. This allows us to distinguish the Funds’ effects on factor accumulation from those on total productivity changes. Our evidence implies that the Funds had a weak, but significant, impact on total factor productivity change but virtually no effect on capital accumulation or employment. Different types of Structural Funds are found to have widely different influences, with the European Social Fund, arguably, having the strongest impact.

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  • Gianluigi Coppola & Sergio Destefanis, 2015. "Structural Funds and Regional Convergence: Some Sectoral Estimates for Italy," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Chiara Mussida & Francesco Pastore (ed.), Geographical Labor Market Imbalances, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 307-333, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aiechp:978-3-642-55203-8_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55203-8_14
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    1. Roberta Arbolino & Raffaele Boffardi, 2017. "The Impact of Institutional Quality and Efficient Cohesion Investments on Economic Growth Evidence from Italian Regions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-17, August.
    2. F. Pastore, 2015. "The Mezzogiorno and Crisis after Market and State Failures. A Review of Economic Literature," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3-4, pages 525-582.
    3. Simone Gitto, 2017. "Efficiency change, technological change and capital accumulation in Italian regions: a sectoral study," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(2), pages 191-207, March.
    4. Gianluigi Coppola & Sergio Destefanis & Giorgia Marinuzzi & Walter Tortorella, 2021. "Regional policies and sectoral outputs in the Italian regions. A multi-input multi-output counterfactual approach," Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography 2021-08, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Social Sciences, revised May 2021.
    5. Mindaugas Butkus & Alma Mačiulytė-Šniukienė & Kristina Matuzevičiūtė, 2020. "Mediating Effects of Cohesion Policy and Institutional Quality on Convergence between EU Regions: An Examination Based on a Conditional Beta-Convergence Model with a 3-Way Multiplicative Term," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-37, April.
    6. Bojnec, Štefan & Fertő, Imre, 2022. "Do different types of Common Agricultural Policy subsidies promote farm employment?," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    7. R. Arbolino & R. Boffardi, 2017. "The Role of Regional Institutions in Research and Innovation Investments of Italy's Cohesion Policy," Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1-2, pages 167-192.

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    Keywords

    European Structural Funds; Total factor productivity; Non-parametric frontiers; Malmquist index;
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    JEL classification:

    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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