IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ipt/iptwpa/jrc113328.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The impact of the European Social Fund: The RHOMOLO assessment

Author

Abstract

The ESF is Europe's main instrument for supporting jobs, helping people get better jobs and ensuring fairer job opportunities for all EU citizens. The ESF includes 4 different thematic objectives aimed at promoting sustainable employment, social inclusion, education and the efficiency of the public administration. Policy simulations using the RHOMOLO dynamic CGE model show positive aggregate macro-economic effects of the ESF policy intervention. The ESF stimulates GDP and employment via increases in labour productivity, education and training, and additional demand-side effects. RHOMOLO is able to quantify the impact of the ESF in the EU as a whole as well as in each one of the 267 NUTS 2 EU regions. Less developed regions reap most of the benefits of ESF policy intervention. By 2030, the cumulative GDP impact of the ESF is larger than its cost, that is the ESF generates more than one euro for each euro spent in it.

Suggested Citation

  • Stylianos Sakkas & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2018. "The impact of the European Social Fund: The RHOMOLO assessment," JRC Research Reports JRC113328, Joint Research Centre.
    • Handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc113328
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC113328
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Stylianos Sakkas, 2018. "The macroeconomic implications of the European Social Fund: An impact assessment exercise using the RHOMOLO model," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2018-01, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Patrizio Lecca & Javier Barbero Jimenez & Martin Aaroe Christensen & Andrea Conte & Francesco Di Comite & Jorge Diaz-Lanchas & Olga Diukanova & Giovanni Mandras & Damiaan Persyn & Stylianos Sakkas, 2018. "RHOMOLO V3:A Spatial Modelling Framework," JRC Research Reports JRC111861, Joint Research Centre.
    3. Stylianos Sakkas & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2018. "The impact of the European Social Fund: The RHOMOLO assessment," JRC Research Reports JRC113328, Joint Research Centre.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Damiaan Persyn & Jorge Diaz-Lanchas & Javier Barbero & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2020. "A new dataset of distance and time related transport costs for EU regions," JRC Research Reports JRC119412, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Stylianos Sakkas & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2018. "The impact of the European Social Fund: The RHOMOLO assessment," JRC Research Reports JRC113328, Joint Research Centre.
    3. Martin Christensen & Andrea Conte & Filippo Di Pietro & Patrizio Lecca & Giovanni Mandras & Simone Salotti, 2018. "The third pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe: An impact assessment using the RHOMOLO model," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2018-02, Joint Research Centre.
    4. Giovanni Mandras & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2019. "Coal regions in transition: the RHOMOLO-IO indirect jobs estimates," JRC Research Reports JRC118641, Joint Research Centre.
    5. Carlo Gianelle & Fabrizio Guzzo & Javier Barbero & Simone Salotti, 2022. "The economic implications of Smart Specialisation governance: a general equilibrium analysis for Italy 2014-2020," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2022-05, Joint Research Centre.
    6. Mark Thissen & Olga Ivanova & Giovanni Mandras & Trond Husby, 2019. "European NUTS 2 regions: construction of interregional trade-linked Supply and Use tables with consistent transport flows," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2019-01, Joint Research Centre.
    7. Christensen, Martin & Weiers, Georg & Wolski, Marcin, 2019. "The 2019 assessment of the macroeconomic effects of the European Fund for Strategic Investments with the RHOMOLO-EIB model," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 45, pages 5-15.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mark Thissen & Olga Ivanova & Giovanni Mandras & Trond Husby, 2019. "European NUTS 2 regions: construction of interregional trade-linked Supply and Use tables with consistent transport flows," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2019-01, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Martin Christensen & Andrea Conte & Filippo Di Pietro & Patrizio Lecca & Giovanni Mandras & Simone Salotti, 2018. "The third pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe: An impact assessment using the RHOMOLO model," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2018-02, Joint Research Centre.
    3. Christensen, Martin & Weiers, Georg & Wolski, Marcin, 2019. "The 2019 assessment of the macroeconomic effects of the European Fund for Strategic Investments with the RHOMOLO-EIB model," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 45, pages 5-15.
    4. Carlo Gianelle & Fabrizio Guzzo & Javier Barbero & Simone Salotti, 2022. "The economic implications of Smart Specialisation governance: a general equilibrium analysis for Italy 2014-2020," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2022-05, Joint Research Centre.
    5. Damiaan Persyn & Jorge Diaz-Lanchas & Javier Barbero & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2020. "A new dataset of distance and time related transport costs for EU regions," JRC Research Reports JRC119412, Joint Research Centre.
    6. Giovanni Mandras & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2019. "Coal regions in transition: the RHOMOLO-IO indirect jobs estimates," JRC Research Reports JRC118641, Joint Research Centre.
    7. Roberta Capello & Andrea Caragliu, 2021. "Regional growth and disparities in a post‐COVID Europe: A new normality scenario," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(4), pages 710-727, September.
    8. Piotr Rosik & Julia Wójcik, 2022. "Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development: A Survey of Literature on Wider Economic and Spatial Impacts," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-19, December.
    9. Javier Barbero & Olga Diukanova & Carlo Gianelle & Simone Salotti & Artur Santoalha, 2022. "Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(9), pages 1496-1509, September.
    10. Stylianos Sakkas, 2018. "The macroeconomic implications of the European Social Fund: An impact assessment exercise using the RHOMOLO model," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2018-01, Joint Research Centre.
    11. Martin Christensen & Andrea Conte & Filippo Di Pietro & Patrizio Lecca & Giovanni Mandras & Simone Salotti, 2018. "The third pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe: The RHOMOLO assessment," JRC Research Reports JRC114088, Joint Research Centre.
    12. Barbero, Javier & Diukanova, Olga & Gianelle, Carlo & Salotti, Simone & Santoalha, Artur, 2024. "Technologically related diversification: One size does not fit all European regions," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 53(3).
    13. Filippo Di Pietro & Patrizio Lecca & Simone Salotti, 2021. "Regional economic resilience in the European Union: a numerical general equilibrium analysis," Spatial Economic Analysis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 287-312, July.
    14. Patrizio Lecca & Martin Christensen & Andrea Conte & Giovanni Mandras & Simone Salotti, 2020. "Upward pressure on wages and the interregional trade spillover effects under demand‐side shocks," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(1), pages 165-182, February.
    15. Martin Christensen & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2019. "Horizon Europe: The RHOMOLO ex-ante assessment," JRC Research Reports JRC115437, Joint Research Centre.
    16. Alessio Baldassarre & Danilo Carullo & Paolo Di Caro & Elisa Fusco & Pasquale Giacobbe & Carlo Orecchia, 2023. "Bilateral Regional Trade Flows in Italy: an Origin-Destination-Commodity GWR-SAR approach," Working Papers wp2023-18, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of Finance.
    17. Damiaan Persyn & Jorge Diaz-Lanchas & Javier Barbero, 2019. "Estimating road transport costs between EU regions," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2019-04, Joint Research Centre.
    18. Jose L. Zofio & Jorge Diaz-Lanchas & Damiaan Persyn & Javier Barbero, 2020. "Estimating foreign and national trade elasticities in the EU internal market using Generalised Transport Costs," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2020-05, Joint Research Centre.
    19. Javier Barberoa & Olga Diukanovaa & Carlo Gianellea & Simone Salottia & Artur Santoalha, 2020. "Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis on research and innovation targets in Southern Europe," Working Papers on Innovation Studies 20200525, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo.
    20. Giovanni Mandras & Andrea Conte & Simone Salotti, 2019. "The RHOMOLO-IO modelling framework: a flexible Input-Output tool for policy analysis," JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis 2019-06, Joint Research Centre.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    rhomolo; growth; impact assessment; European social fund;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc113328. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Publication Officer (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipjrces.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.