Introduction

Floro Caroleo () and Francesco Pastore

Chapter 1 in The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement. A New Regional Geography of Europe?, 2010, pp 1-13 from AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro

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.

Keywords: Regional Inequality; Structural Change; Active Labour Market Policy; Transition from Plan to Market; Mezzogiorno. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C21 C31 J5 J61 J63 J64 L72 P25 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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