The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. An Overview of the Main Issues and the Role of Structural Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 16-16

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   2. Introduction

      • Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

      Pages 1-13

   3. Structural Change and Labour Reallocation Across Regions: A Review of the Literature

      • Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Francesco Pastore

      Pages 17-47

   4. Organized Labour and Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Czech Republic and Romania

      • Jan Bruha, Delia Ionascu, Byeongju Jeong

      Pages 49-72

3. New Evidence on Spatial Convergence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 74-74

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   2. Labour Productivity Polarization Across Western European Regions: Threshold Effects Versus Neighbourhood Effects

      • Roberto Basile

      Pages 75-97

   3. Transition, Regional Features, Growth and Labour Market Dynamics

      • Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli

      Pages 99-147

   4. Regional Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland A Convergence Approach

      • Joanna Tyrowicz, Piotr Wójcik

      Pages 149-173

   5. Spatial Distribution of Key Macroeconomic Growth Indicators in the EU-27: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

      • Lucian-Liviu Albu, John M. Polimeni, Raluca I. Iorgulescu

      Pages 175-194

4. Is Migration Reinforcing Regional Unemployment Differences?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 196-196

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   2. Internal Labour Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region: Evidence from Labour Force Surveys

      • Pierella Paci, Erwin R. Tiongson, Mateusz Walewski, Jacek Liwiński

      Pages 197-225

   3. Spatial Search and Commuting with Asymmetric Changes of the Wage Distribution

      • Alisher Aldashev

      Pages 227-245

   4. Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

      • Amelie F. Constant, Elena D’Agosto

      Pages 247-271

5. Some Policy Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 274-274

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   2. Assessing Active Labour Market Policies in Transition Economies

      • Hartmut Lehmann, Jochen Kluve

      Pages 275-307

   3. Regional Female Labour Force Participation: An Empirical Application with Spatial Effects

      • Martin Falk, Thomas Leoni

      Pages 309-326

6. Back Matter

   Pages 327-342

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Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Francesco Pastore This book was conceived to collect selected essays presented at the session on “The Labour Market Impact of the European Union Enlargements. A New Regional Geography of Europe?” of the XXII Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economics (AIEL). The session aimed to stimulate the debate on the continuity/ fracture of regional patterns of development and employment in old and new European Union (EU) regions. In particular, we asked whether, and how different, the causes of emergence and the evolution of regional imbalances in the new EU members of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are compared to those in the old EU members. Several contributions in this book suggest that a factor common to all backward regions, often neglected in the literature, is to be found in their higher than average degree of structural change or, more precisely, in the hardship they expe- ence in coping with the process of structural change typical of all advanced economies. In the new EU members of CEE, structural change is still a consequence of the continuing process of transition from central planning to a market economy, but also of what Fabrizio et al. (2009) call the “second transition”, namely that related to the run-up to and entry in the EU.

• Central and Eastern Europe
• EU Enlargement
• Eastern Europe
• Labour Markets
• Regional Economics
• Regional Policy
• Structural Change
• Unemployment

From the reviews:

“This book deals with a highly topical issue: various labour market impacts of the recent EU enlargement. The book consists of a number of research papers that were originally presented at a seminar. … the book provides several important new insights about structural change and regional labour markets in Europe. I can recommend it to anyone who is interested in regional labour market analysis with a European focus.” (Petri Böckerman, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 12 (4), July, 2012)

“This book collects a number of thought-provoking papers and raises important policy-relevant issues with respect to structural change, convergence, labour mobility and regional labour market policy in the EU that are likely to inspire further research. Furthermore readers … will find the literature surveys both in the review and in most of the research papers useful.” (Peter Huber, Scienze Regionali, Vol. 11 (2), 2012)

“The book’s chapters (essays) are able to capture the main issues under discussion, while also providing a comprehensive set of theoretical and econometric methodologies used in the field of contemporary regional economic research. … The book is useful to all academics, university students of economics - especially labor economics - as well as bureaucrats in international organizations and policy makers and union members interested in these themes. Thus, they can broaden and enrich their knowledge of such important issues of the day.” (Alka Obadić, Croatian Economic Survey, Vol. 13 (1), April, 2011)

• Fac. Economia, Università Napoli Parthenope, Napoli, Italy

  Floro Ernesto Caroleo

• Dipto. Discipline Giuspubblicistiche, Seconda Università di Napoli, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy

  Francesco Pastore

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