ISBN: 3790816795
TITLE: The European Labour Market
AUTHOR: Caroleo/Destefanis
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Introduction and Overview 1
Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Sergio Destefanis
1 Regional Disparities in Europe 9
Adalgiso Amendola, Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Gianluigi Coppola
1.1 Introduction 9
1.2 Measuring disparities: three-way matrices 11
1.3 The STATIS method 13
1.4 Analysis and results 14
1.5 Summary and conclusions 26
Appendix 27
References 30
2 Regional Unemployment in the OST Literature 33
Anna Maria Ferragina and Francesco Pastore
2.1 Introduction 33
2.2 The neoclassical approach to regional unemployment 36
2.3 Regional unemployment and the OST literature 38
2.4 Testing the OST hterature 52
2.5 The role of economic integration and convergence 68
2.6 Concluding remarks 78
References 80
3 Regional Employment Dynamics in the EU: Structural Outlook, Co-Movements, Clusters and Common Shocks 89
Enrico Marelli
3.1 Introduction 89
3.2 A review of the literature an employment dynamics and regional convergence in Europe 90
3.3 Working assumptions and data set 96
3.4 Employment growth and economic structure of the European regions 98
3.5 Regional employment growth correlations 107
3.6 Policy implications and conclusions 116
References 120
4 Does Space Matter for Labour Markets and How? A Critical Survey of the Recent Italian Empirical Evidence 123
Mario A. Maggioni and Francesca Gambarotto
4.1 Introduction 123
4.2 Firms' location and the labour market 124
4.3 The importance of the definition of the territorial unit 126
4.4 Endogenous perspectives on local labour markets 127
4.5 Exogenous perspectives on local labour markets 133
4.6 Policy implications and conclusions 139
References 142
5 Labour Market Reform and the Beveridge Curve across Italian Regions 147
Sergio Destefanis and Raguel Fonseca
5.1 Introduction .147
5.2 Labour market reform and matching efficiency 149
5.3 Matching functions and production frontiers 151
5.4 The Beveridge curve in Italy. The literature 154
5.5 Labour market reform, vacancies and unemployment. The estimates.155
5.6 Concluding remarks 159
Appendix 160
References 162
6 Enterprise Defensive Restructuring. Cross-Country Evidence within Transitional Settings 165
Polona Domadenik and Maja Vehovec
6.1 Introduction 165
6.2 The institutional framework and policy settings in Slovenia and Croatia 167
6.3 A general model of dynamic labour demand 170
6.4 Data and empirical results 173
6.5 Conclusion 176
References 177
7 Widening Unemployment Differentials in Italy: The Role of Wage and Labour Productivity 179
Michele Limosani
7.1 Introduction 179
7.2 Theoretical background 180
7.3 The empirical aualysis 181
7.4 Concluding remarks 184
References 185
8 Skill Mismatch and Regional Unemployment in Poland 187
Andrew Newell
8.1 Introduction 187
8.2 Unemployment and structural change across Poland's regions 189
8.3 Theoretical issues 193
8.4 Econometric results 198
8.5 Conclusions 201
References 201
9 The Wage Curve and Agglomeration 203
Jens Sdekum
9.1 Introduction 203
9.2 The theory of the wage curve 204
9.3 A critical review of the Blanchflower/Oswald model 209
9.4 Endogenous agglomeration economies 211
9.5 Discussion and conclusion 217
References 218
10 A Panel of Regional Indicators of Labour Market Flexibility: the UK,1979-1998 221
Vassilis Monastiriotis
10.1 Introduction 221
10.2 Labour market flexibility and its elements 223
10.3 Construction of the indexes of flexibility 228
10.4 Labour market flexibility in the UK, 1979-1998 233
10.5 Concluding remarks 240
Appendix 241
References 243
11 Regional Wage Flexibility: the Wage Curve in Five EU Countries 245
Victor Montuenga, Inmaculadaa Garca and Melchor Fernndez
11.1 Introduction 245
11.2 The wage curve and the measurement of wage flexibility 247
11.3 The data and the model 250
11.4 Empirical results 253
11.5 Conclusions 257
Appendix 258
References 264
12 Large-Scale Labour Market Restructuring and Labour Mobility: the Experiences of East Germany and Poland 267
Vania Sena
12.1 Introduction 267
12.2 Permanent shocks and Labour market adjustment: an analytical framework 268
12.3 East Germany 274
12.4 Poland 278
12.5 Conclusions 284
References 285
13 Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany. A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data 287
Reinhard Hujer, Uwe Blien, Marco Caliendo and Christopher Zeiss
13.1 Introduction 287
13.2 Micro- and macroeconometric evaluation 288
13.3 Institutional setup and instruments of ALMP 290
13.4 The dataset 293
13.5 Macroeconomic analysis of ALMP 294
13.6 Econometric methods 297
13.7 Empirical results 300
13.8 Conclusions 305
References 308
14 Evaluating Asymmetries in Active Labour Market Policies: the Case of Italy 311
Carlo Altavilla and Floro Ernesto Caroleo
14.1 Introduction 311
14.2 ALMP and the OECD perspective 312
14.3 The theoretical effects of ALMP 315
14.4 A macroeconomic evaluation of ALMP in Italy 320
14.5 Empirical models of Labour market policies 323
14.6 Conclusions 336
References 337
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