“The grass is greener on the other side”: The relationship between the Brexit referendum results and spatial inequalities at the local level

Posada, Diana Gutiérrez; Плотнікова, М. Ф.; Morollón, Fernando Rubiera

doi:10.1111/pirs.12630

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“…Unfortunately, one important consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis has been disclosing widespread health, social and economic inequalities in many countries and regions. Understanding the traits of 'geography of discontent' is significantly important for governance structures (Gutiérrez-Posada et al, 2021) as international papers have reported that inter-regional inequalities do not favour regional growth (McCann, 2020).…”

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The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on regional inequalities in Romania. Spotlight on unemployment and health conditions

Reveiu

Constantin

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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For a long time, inequalities have existed across the population and between different communities and groups. Although regional inequality is a topic of interest among scholars and policy makers, only recently have they been increasingly investigated at local territorial units. The economic shock related to the COVID‐19 crisis, which resulted from the lockdown and significant decline in economic activity in many sectors, has affected all regions, but not in the same way or with a similar intensity. Assessing some regional indicators available in the first period of the ongoing COVID‐19 crisis depicting the quality of life, it is becoming evident that new regional disparities emerge and interact with many of the pre‐existing inequalities. This paper aims to provide new insights on the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on inequalities across two dimensions, namely employment and health conditions, with relevance for the standard of living. By investigating past and current evolutions of some indicators, as reflected at the NUTS3 territorial level in Romania and the use of spatial analysis, our study shows that new fissures generated by the health crisis have deepened the existing inequalities at the regional level along various key dimensions such as gender, age, education, and rural–urban and local geography. This empirical study, considering traditional measurements of inequality and relevant spatial investigation, evaluates the intensity of inequalities across all Romanian counties.

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The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on regional inequalities in Romania. Spotlight on unemployment and health conditions

Reveiu

Constantin

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…The discussion about devolution in the UK does not only relate to the economics literature because of Brexit, but it also speaks to the ‘optimum size of nations’ literature following the seminal study by Alesina and Spolaore ( 2003 ). In addition, studying the intra-UK consequences of Brexit and of alternative internal UK ‘break up’ scenarios is inspired by a growing literature linking the (the regional dispersion in the) Brexit vote or preferences to regional differences in demographic, economic, political or even psychological make-up of UK regions [see for instance Gutiérrez-Posada et al ( 2021 ), Los et al ( 2017 ), De Ruyter et al ( 2021 ), Garretsen et al ( 2018 ), respectively].…”

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EXITitis in the UK: Gravity Estimates in the Aftermath of Brexit

2023

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The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union has had disruptive effects on international trade. As part of its ‘Global Britain’ strategy in the wake of Brexit, the UK is pursuing a series of Free Trade Agreements with countries around the world, including Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and possibly the United States. Closer to home, the UK is under mounting pressure to dissuade Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales from seeking independence to regain the severed ties with the EU. We analyze the economic consequences of these scenarios with a state-of-the-art structural gravity model for major economies around the world. We find that ‘Global Britain’ yields insufficient trade creation to compensate for Brexit-induced trade losses. Our results also reveal that secession from the UK in itself would inflict greater post-Brexit economic harm on the devolved nations of Great Britain. Nevertheless, these effects could be offset when secession from the UK is combined with regained EU membership.

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Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?

2022

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“The grass is greener on the other side”: The relationship between the Brexit referendum results and spatial inequalities at the local level

Abstract: Despite seven decades of development of the EuropeanUnion project, on 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom, Europe and the rest of the world were surprised when the Leave campaign won the Brexit referendum, offering an extraordinary case study for researchers. We spatially disag-

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The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on regional inequalities in Romania. Spotlight on unemployment and health conditions

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on regional inequalities in Romania. Spotlight on unemployment and health conditions

EXITitis in the UK: Gravity Estimates in the Aftermath of Brexit

Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?

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