Introduction

Floro Caroleo () and Francesco Pastore

A chapter in The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement, 2010, pp 1-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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 experience 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. In addition, new EU members also experience a source of structural change that concerns the old EU members more specifically, namely the transition to immaterial production, which is also driven by the increasing globalisation of world markets.

Keywords: Labour Market; European Union; European Union Country; Wage Distribution; Female Labour Force Participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2164-2_1

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