Economic crisis and regional resilience: Evidence from Greece

Giannakis, Elias; Bruggeman, Adriana

doi:10.1111/pirs.12206

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“…() conclude that urban agglomerations in Greece have been more vulnerable to the crisis. This is in line with Giannakis and Bruggeman () who use regional data for Greece and also conclude that rural regions have been more resilient than urban regions.…”

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Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Holl

2018

Journal of Regional Science

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The 2008 financial and economic crisis has led to widespread destruction of employment in Spain. Using municipality data, I examine employment growth differences between urban cores, urban hinterlands, and rural areas during the pre‐crisis period and the recession period. The data show that patterns of growth and decline have been very uneven across different types of areas. While in the boom years, hinterlands and rural areas experienced higher growth, urban core areas have done better during the recession years. I then test three strands of explanations for local growth differences: (i) the role of the local sectoral composition, (ii) the role of human capital, and (iii) the role of access to urban core areas. Estimations for employment growth in the two periods show that the crisis has altered some of the drivers of local employment growth and that human capital has been a key determinant of local resilience during the Great Recession.

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“…() Psycharis et al. (), and Giannakis and Bruggeman () for Greece. In Greece, the main urban regions lost population after the onset of the economic crisis, while in rural and island regions population increased as people left the cities in response to very high job losses in the secondary sector in urban areas (Giannakis & Bruggeman, ).…”

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Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Holl

2018

Journal of Regional Science

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“…Also methodologically, the papers were quite different, from case studies (Simmie and Martin 2010;Evans and Karecha 2014) to papers using indicators, shift-share or input-output analysis (e.g. Giannakis and Bruggeman 2017;Martin et al 2016), to papers using models (e.g. Capello et al 2015Capello et al , 2016 to papers using long-run time series to investigate the transition functions of regions (Fingleton et al 2012;Cellini and Torrisi 2014;Di Caro 2014.…”

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Regional determinants of economic resilience

Fratesi

2017

Ann Reg Sci

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The economic resilience approach recently spread among regional scientists and economic geographers has provided new challenges to empirical researchers interested in studying the overall temporary and persistent consequences of the recent crisis and, more broadly, economic shocks. One of the open issues in this literature is the identification of the determinants of resilience, that is, the factors that influence the evolutionary dynamic process of robustness and adaptability registered in particular places. The selected sample of papers in this special issue provides original contributions for answering the question about what determines regional economic resilience. The common findings of the contributions can be seen as quite robust by relying upon different measures of resilience, cases, methodologies and time periods. Three main conclusions arise from the special issue: most of the determinants of economic resilience show regularities across time and space. The factors that contribute to explain the economic performance of places in normal times are also useful for understanding the patterns observed during and after recessionary events. Policymakers can play an active role in sustaining resilient economies by addressing resources and efforts in the right policy areas without waiting for crises.

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“…According to the Census of Agriculture 2010, 1.4% of the farm holdings in Cyprus are pure animal holdings, of which 92% are with no agricultural land. 2 One dummy variable was used to reflect farm typology; considering that the share of pure animal holdings in the total number of farms is minor, that is, 1%, pure animal holdings were merged with mixed farming holdings in one category.…”

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“…Agriculture is no longer the backbone of most rural economies, and is neither necessary nor sufficient for generating and maintaining high income and employment shares in rural areas [1]. Emerging sectors, including the food manufacturing industry and tourism sector, create strong backward and forward linkages in many rural communities, complementing and/or replacing agriculture in this role [2]. A less protective framework for agriculture, including a reduction in CAP subsidies, may further push farmers to search for other forms of stable income or to leave agriculture [3].…”

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Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus

2018

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Off-farm employment is an important strategy for complementing farm household income and maintaining rural livelihoods. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to investigate the effect of farm-level and regional-level factors on off-farm employment in Cyprus during the recent economic crisis period. The performance of nonfarm sectors positively affects off-farm employment; a one-percent increase in the share of the secondary and tertiary sector employment increases the likelihood of off-farm work by 9.5 times. The importance of location was also identified. Farm households located in rural areas are 70% less likely to engage in off-farm work than households located in urban areas. The positive effect of educational attainment and the negative effect of farm training confirmed the importance of human capital characteristics on off-farm labour participation. Farm structural factors are also significant determinants of off-farm employment. A one-hectare increase in the farm size decreases the odds of off-farm labour participation by 50%. Operators of crop farming holdings are 4.2 times more likely to work off the farm than operators of livestock and mixed-farming holdings. The results reveal the importance of adopting a multilevel and integrated approach for the analysis of off-farm employment.

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Economic crisis and regional resilience: Evidence from Greece

Cited by 171 publications

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Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Local employment growth patterns and the Great Recession: The case of Spain

Regional determinants of economic resilience

Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus

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