Geographical Labor Market Imbalances. Recent Explanations and Cures

Edited by Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore

in AIEL Series in Labour Economics from AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro

Abstract: This book focuses the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on in a large number of works and have recently also been studied using spatial econometric analysis. In this book we aim to develop the debate to include several important new topics, such as: reasons why structural changes in some sectors cause slumps in some regions but not in others; the extent to which agglomeration factors explain regional imbalances; the degree of convergence/divergence across EU countries and regions; the role of labor mobility in reducing/increasing regional labor market imbalances; the impact of EU and country-level regional policy in stimulating convergence; and the (unsatisfactory) role of active labor market policy in stimulating labor supply in the weakest economic areas.

Date: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-642-55202-1
Note: Published by Physica-Verlag Heidelberg.
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-13

Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore

Ch 2 Worker Turnover Across Italian Regions , pp 17-35

Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore

Ch 3 Spatial Patterns of German Labor Market: Panel Data Analysis of Regional Unemployment , pp 37-64

Elena Semerikova

Ch 4 Compensating Wage Differentials Across Russian Regions , pp 65-105

Aleksey Oshchepkov

Ch 5 Convergence Across Regions in Kazakhstan , pp 107-118

Alisher Aldashev

Ch 6 Agglomeration Economies and Employment Growth in Italy , pp 121-141

Roberto Basile, Cristiana Donati and Rosanna Pittiglio

Ch 7 Do Agglomeration Externalities Enhance Regional Performances in Production Process? A Stochastic Frontier Approach , pp 143-166

Massimiliano Agovino and Agnese Rapposelli

Ch 8 Employers’ Agglomeration and Innovation in a Small Business Economy: The Italian Case , pp 167-192

Giuseppe Croce, Edoardo Di Porto, Emanuela Ghignoni and Andrea Ricci

Ch 9 Do FDI in Business Services Affect Firms’ TFP? Evidence from Italian Provinces , pp 195-217

Massimo Armenise, Giorgia Giovannetti and Gianluca Santoni

Ch 10 Explaining the Patenting Propensity: A Regional Analysis Using EPO-OECD Data , pp 219-236

Claudio Cozza and Francesco Schettino

Ch 11 Family Origin and Early School Leaving in Italy: The Long-Term Effects of Internal Migration , pp 237-259

Carmen Aina, , and, Giorgia Casalone and Paolo Ghinetti

Ch 12 The Effect of University Costs and Institutional Incentives on Enrolments: Empirical Evidence for Italian Regions , pp 261-282

Claudia Pigini and Stefano Staffolani

Ch 13 Globalized Markets, Globalized Information, and Female Employment: Accounting for Regional Differences in 30 OECD Countries , pp University of Mannheim

Justina A. V. Fischer

Ch 14 Structural Funds and Regional Convergence: Some Sectoral Estimates for Italy , pp 307-333

Gianluigi Coppola and Sergio Destefanis

Ch 15 Fostering the Self-Employment in Spain: An Evaluation of the Capitalisation of Unemployment Benefits Programme , pp 335-352

Matías Mayor, Begoña Cueto and Patricia Suárez

Ch 16 Regional Price Indices and Real Wage Equalization in Poland , pp 17-35

Bartlomiej Rokicki

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