A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

23 Pages Posted: 11 Mar 2007

See all articles by Floro E. Caroleo

Floro E. Caroleo

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Francesco Pastore

IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Seconda Università di Napoli - Dipartimento di Discipline Giuridiche ed Economiche Italiane Europee e Comparate

Date Written: February 2007

Abstract

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour markets. Structural change has been long neglected, but the availability of new data and the specific nature of economic transition in new member states has brought again this issue to the fore, suggesting that it might provide an explanation also of several typical features of regional imbalances in old member states. The literature provides theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence to confirm this.

Keywords: regional unemployment, structural change, labour turnover, optimal speed of transition, EU enlargement

JEL Classification: J6, P2, R1, R23

Suggested Citation

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto and Pastore, Francesco and Pastore, Francesco, A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements (February 2007). IZA Discussion Paper No. 2620, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=969620 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.969620

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