A new regional geography of Europe? the labour market impact of the EU enlargements
By: by Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore.
Contributors: Pastore, Francesco.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2620; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2620
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Labor supply -- European Union countries.
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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