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

:	Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
:	Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore
:	The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement A New Regional Geography of Europe?
:	Physica-Verlag
:	9783790821642
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:	Volkswirtschaft
:	English

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Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Francesco Pastore This book was conceived to collect selected essays presented at the session on 'The Labour Market Impact of the European Union Enlargements. A New Regional Geography of Europe?' of the XXII Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL). The session aimed to stimulate the debate on the continuity/ fracture of regional patterns of development and employment in old and new European Union (EU) regions. In particular, we asked whether, and how different, the causes of emergence and the evolution of regional imbalances in the new EU members of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are compared to those in the old EU members. Several contributions in this book suggest that a factor common to all backward regions, often neglected in the literature, is to be found in their higher than average degree of structural change or, more precisely, in the hardship they expe- ence in coping with the process of structural change typical of all advanced economies. In the new EU members of CEE, structural change is still a consequence of the continuing process of transition from central planning to a market economy, but also of what Fabrizio et al. (2009) call the 'second transition', namely that related to the run-up to and entry in the EU.

	Acknowledgements	5
	Contents	7
	Contributors	9
	Introduction	14
	References	26
	Part I An Overview of the Main Issues and the Role of Structural Change	27
	Structural Change and Labour Reallocation Across Regions: A Review of the Literature	28
	Introduction	29
	Motivation	30
	The Link Between Local Worker Reallocation and Unemployment	33
	The Sources of Worker Reallocation	39
	The Weakness of Backward Regions	44
	Globalisation and Regional Imbalances	45
	Adjustment Through Migration?	47
	Poverty Trap Mechanisms	49
	Policy Implications	50
	Benefit Systems and Their Interaction with ALMP	50
	EU Regional Policy	51
	Concluding Remarks	52
	References	53
	Organized Labour and Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Czech Republic and Romania	59
	Introduction	59
	Restructuring Experiences of the Two Regions	61
	Evaluating the Restructuring Paths	66
	Measuring the Value of Labour inside Mines	67
	Measuring the Value of Labour outside Mines	68
	Measuring the Efficiency of Restructuring Paths	71
	Explaining the Restructuring Paths	75
	Gradual Restructuring with Transfer Payments	75
	The Nature of the Miners´ Action	77
	The Corroborating Factors for the Miners´ Action	80
	Conclusion	81
	References	81
	Part II New Evidence on Spatial Convergence	83
	Labour Productivity Polarization Across Western European Regions: Threshold Effects Versus Neighbourhood Effects	84
	Introduction	84
	Regional Productivity Differentials in Europe: Polarization and Spatial Clustering	87
	Explaining Polarization	92
	The Conditioning Scheme	92
	Growth Regression Model Specifications	93
	Regression Results	96
	Conditioned Ergodic Distributions	99
	Discussion and Conclusions	101
	Appendix: List of regions	102
	References	104
	Transition, Regional Features, Growth and Labour Market Dynamics	107
	Introduction	108
	Transition, Regional Features and Economic Performance: A Partial Review of the Literature	109
	Regional Labour Market Dynamics in Transition Economies	111
	Economic and Structural Convergence of Regions in Europe and in the Transition Countries	112
	Initial Conditions, Transition and Economic Performance: Some Stylized Facts	115
	Initial Economic and Institutional Conditions	116
	Institutional Change and Reform Policies	118
	Economic Performance	119
	Regional Features of Transition Countries: Some Empirical Results	124
	Regional Convergence, Growth, Employment and Institutional Change: Econometric Investigations	131
	Income Convergence of Regions	131
	Value Added and Employment Growth in CEEC Regions	135
	Conclusions and Policy Implications	139
	Appendix	141
	References	152
	Regional Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland A Convergence Approach	156
	Introduction	157
	Literature Review	159
	Methodology	161
	Data	163
	Results - Distribution Dynamics	165
	Results - beta Convergence	173
	Conclusions	177
	References	179
	Spatial Distribution of Key Macroeconomic Growth Indicators in the EU-27: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation	181
	Introduction	182
	Long-Run Dynamics	183
	Spatial Distribution of Basic Macroeconomic Variables	184
	Estimating the Natural Rate of Unemployment	186
	Estimating ``Pure Productivity´´	190
	Concluding Remarks	193
	Appendix1	194
	Appendix2	195
	Appendix3	196
	Appendix4	197
	References	200
	Part III Is Migration Reinforcing Regional Unemployment Differences?	201
	Internal Labour Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region: Evidence from Labour Force Surveys	202
	Introduction	203
	Review of the Literature	204
	Covariates of Labour Mobility	205
	Data and Methodology	207
	Definition of Mobility	208
	Specification	209
	Main Results	211
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