 Regional Disparities in Income and Unemployment in EuropeÅdne Cappelen, Fulvio Castellacci, Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen Chapter 11 in European Regional Growth, 2003, pp 323-350 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Greater equality across Europe in productivity and per capita income has been one of the central goals for the European Community since the early days of European economic integration. Various policy measures have been introduced to help achieve this goal (the so-called “Structural Funds”). For a long time the regions of Europe were on a converging path and, hence, the existing set of policies seemed to have the desired effect (Molle 1980). More recent evidence has, however, challenged these previous findings by showing that the tendency towards convergence came to a halt in the beginning of the 1980s (Fagerberg and Verspagen 1996, Cappelen, Fagerberg and Verspagen 1999). This evidence, based on data for 12 EU countries up 1997 and presented in section 2 of this Chapter, confirms that there is very little regional convergence going on within EU member states. To the extent that there has been any convergence, it appears to be at the country level mainly due to strong growth in Portugal and Spain. Keywords: Regional Policy; Regional Convergence; Regional Disparity; Structural Fund; Regional Support (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-662-07136-6_12 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-07136-6_12 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Advances in Spatial Science from Springer |
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