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Regional Disparities and Growth in the European Union - Economic Integration, Convergence and Skill-Specific Employment
Friso Schlitte, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
Verlag wbv Media, 2012
ISBN 9783763940547 , 156 Seiten
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Contents
4
Danksagung
8
Chapter 1 Review of Relevant Studies
10
1 Introduction
10
2 Regional Convergence and Economic Integration
15
2.1 Regional Convergence: Theoretical Considerations
15
2.2 Concepts of Convergence
16
2.3 Spatial Autocorrelation
18
2.4 Regional Disparities in the Enlarged EU
19
2.5 Economic Integration and Convergence
20
3 Skill-Specific Employment Growth and the Effects of Local Human Capital and Skill Segregation
22
3.1 Changes in the Demand for High and Low Skills
22
3.2 Product Life-Cycles and Functional Specialisation
23
3.3 Local Human Capital Externalities and Skill Complementarities
23
3.4 Skill-Specific Employment Growth
25
3.5 Workplace Segregation by Skill
26
4 Summary and Outlook
29
Chapter 2 Regional Income Inequality and Convergence Processes in the EU-25
38
1 Introduction
38
2 Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
39
3 Dataset and Regional System
41
4 Development of Regional Disparities in the EU
42
4.1 Spatial Distribution of Income Levels and Growth
42
4.2 Between- and Within-Country Inequality
43
5 Estimation
47
5.1 ß-Convergence
47
5.2 Spatial Dependence
48
5.3 Estimation Results
51
6 Conclusions
55
Appendix
59
Chapter 3 EU Enlargement and Convergence – Does Market Access Matter?
60
1 Introduction
60
2 Theory
62
2.1 A Two-Country, Three-Region NEG Model
63
2.2 Effects of Integration
66
2.3 Implications for EU Enlargement
67
3 Methodology
68
3.1 Integration and Market Access
68
3.2 Integration and Convergence
71
4 Data and Regional System
73
5 Empirical Results
74
5.1 Enlargement and Changes in Market Access
74
5.2 Regional Convergence in the Enlarged European Union
79
5.3 Convergence and the Effects of Integration
82
6 Conclusions
85
Chapter 4 The Determinants of Regional Differences in Skill Segregation – Evidence from a Cross Section of German Regions
90
1 Introduction
90
2 Theoretical Background
93
3 Data
95
4 Methodological Issues
97
4.1 Measurement of Skill Segregation
97
4.2 Regression Analysis
99
5 Evidence on Regional Differences in Skill Segregation among German Regions
101
5.1 Descriptive Overview
101
5.2 Regression Results
106
6 Conclusions
112
Chapter 5 Local Human Capital, Segregation by Skill, and Skill-Specific Employment Growth
116
1 Introduction
116
2 Local Human Capital and Skill Segregation
120
2.1 Human Capital Externalities and Skill Complementarities
120
2.2 Human Capital, Skill Segregation and Employment Growth
121
3 Data
124
4 Skill Segregation
125
4.1 Measuring Skill Segregation
125
4.2 Skill Segregation in West German Regions
128
5 Regression Model
132
5.1 Specification
132
5.2 Results
134
6 Conclusions
140
Appendix
146
Chapter 6 Summary and Conclusions
148
1 Motivation and Common Features of the Chapters
148
2 Summary of the Chapters
149
3 Conclusions
153
Abstract
156
Kurzfassung
157
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