EU enlargement: what does it change for the European economic geography?

Dupuch, Sébastien; Jennequin, Hugues; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub

doi:10.3917/reof.075.0241

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“…Huge disparities exist among the new EU members. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Poland are more diversified than such peripheral countries as Portugal and Greece, while the Balkan and Baltic countries exhibit the highest values for the specialization index (Dupuch et al , 2004).…”

Section: The Role Of Economic Integration and Convergencementioning

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Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New Eu Regions

Ferragina

Pastore

2008

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU RegionsAnna Maria Ferragina Francesco Pastore D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU RegionsThe paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial differences essentially arise as a consequence of supply side constraints and institutional rigidities. Slow-growth, high-unemployment regions are those with backward economic structures and constraints on factors mobility contribute to making differences persistent. However, such explanations leave the question unanswered of how unemployment differences arise in the first place. Economic transition provides an excellent testing ground to answer this question. Prefiguring an empirical law, the OST literature finds that the high degree of labour turnover of high unemployment regions is associated with a high rate of industrial restructuring and, consequently, that low unemployment may be achieved by implementing transition more gradually. Moreover, international trade, FDI and various agglomeration factors help explain the success of capital cities compared to peripheral towns and rural areas in achieving low unemployment.JEL Classification: J6, P2, R1, R23

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Section: The Role Of Economic Integration and Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New Eu Regions

Ferragina

Pastore

2008

Journal of Economic Surveys

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“…Since weak labour mobility (Tassinopoulos and Werner 1999), is relevant for Europe, the deepening of the European integration process should have induced an important redispersion of industrial activities. Yet, Dupuch et al. (2004) clearly highlight that the core‐periphery structureremains persistent in Europe despite some relocation of industrial activities toward CEECs.…”

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Coordination costs and the redispersion of industrial activities

Noblet

2011

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper sheds the light on an underemphasized centripetal force in a Venables framework: in such kind of models, the fall in transport costs (in core-periphery equilibrium) increases the complexity of production processes, through an increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods. We argue that this increasing complexity strengthens the need, for downstream firms, to be close to their suppliers. If the coordination costs that arise from this complexity effect are strong enough, the redispersion of industrial activities in the last stage of the integration process does not take place.JEL classification: F12, F15, R12, O18

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“…De plus, les firmes multinationales (FMN) peuvent avoir des retombées positives sur les éco-nomies d'accueil via les relations input-output avec les entreprises locales, la mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre et les effets d'imitation ou de concurrence. Enfin, le rôle moteur des IDE dans la transformation de ces économies ouvre sous certaines conditions des perspectives de rattrapage vis-à-vis de l'Union européenne (UE) (Dupuch et al, 2004).…”

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Les déterminants des investissements directs européens dans les pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale

Dupuch¹,

Milan²

2006

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-This article focuses on the determinants of European FDI (foreign direct investment) in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEECs). Our estimation is run on a panel data set covering the 1993-1998 period. Our results show that wage costs differences between the CEECs do not affect the pattern of FDI contrary to wage differences between European Union (EU) member countries and the EU applicants. The human capital effect is sensitive to the construction of the education variable and to the sample. Finally, the market size, the geographic proximity and the privatization method explain a great part of bilateral FDI to the applicant countries.

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EU enlargement: what does it change for the European economic geography?

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New Eu Regions

Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New Eu Regions

Coordination costs and the redispersion of industrial activities

Les déterminants des investissements directs européens dans les pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale

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