ISBN: 3540243038
TITLE: Regional Disparities in Small Countries
AUTHOR: Felsenstein, Portnov
TOC:

Introduction
1. Introduction 1
DANIEL FELSENSTEIN and BORIS A. PORTNOV
Part I: Concepts, Theory and Methods
2. The Liability of Smallness: Can We Expect Less Regional Disparities in Small Countries? 13
DANIEL FELSENSTEIN and BORIS A. PORTNOV
3. Country Size in Regional Economics 25
MICHAEL BEENSTOCK
4. Measures of Regional Inequality for Small Countries 47
BORIS A. PORTNOV and DANIEL FELSENSTEIN
5. Investigating Spatial Patterns of Income Disparities Using Coordinate Transformations and GIS Mapping 63
BORIS A. PORTNOV and RIMMA GLUHIH
Part II: Empirical Evidente
6. Regional Employment Disparities in Belgium: Some Empirical
Results 85
OLIVIER MEUNIER and MICHEL MIGNOLET
7. Regional Income Convergence and Inequality in Boom and Bust: Results from Micro Data in Finland 1971-2000 109
HEIKKI A. LOIKKANEN, MARJA RIIHEL and RISTO SULLSTRM
8. Regional Disparities in Ireland: The Roles of Demography, Profit Outflows, Productivity, Structural Change and Regional Policy 1960-1996 129
EOIN O'LEARY
9. The Persistente of Regional Unemployment Disparities in the Netherlands 147
OEDZGE ATZEMA and JOUKE VAN DIJK
10. The Dynamics of Regional Disparities in a Small Country: The Case of Slovenia 169
PETER WOSTNER
11. Interregional Disparities in Israel: Patterns and Trends 187
BORIS A. PoRTNov
12. Does Decentralisadon Matter to Regional Inequalities? The Case of Small Countries 211
CARLOS GIL, PEDRO PASCUAL and MANUEL RAPN
13. Regional Inequalities in the EU Enlargement Countries: An Analysis of Small Versus Large New Member States 233
GEORGE PETRAKOS, YIANNIS PSYCHARIS and DIMITRIS KALLIORAS
Part III: Policy Issues
14. Has the Financial Economy Increased Regional Disparities in Switzerland over the Last Three Decades? 251
JOS CORPATAUX and OLIVIER CREVOISIER
15. Regional Policy Lessons from Finland 267
HANNU TERVO
16. The Globalisation of Austrian Regions: New Policy Challenges and Opportunities 283
MICHAEL STEINER
17. Innovation Policy: An Effective Way of Reducing Spatial Disparities in Small Nations? 297
STEPHEN ROPER
Figures 313
Tables 317
Author Index 319
Subject Index 325
Contributors 331
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