Regional Inequalities in the New European Union Member-States: Is There a ‘Population Size’ Effect?

Kallioras, Dimitris

doi:10.2478/s10105-010-0013-5

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“…The most commonly used include the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation which were used by Wostner (2005, In Felsenstein, Portnov, 2005a, Puljiz, Maleković (2007), Kallioras (2010), Smętkowski (2013) and others. For purposes of this research were also used just mentioned factors.…”

Section: Methodological Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development tendencies of regional disparities in the Slovak Republic

Klamár¹

2016

Geogr Pannon

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Presented paper deals with the issues of regional development and regional disparities in Slovakia in the years 2001-2014. Levelling respectively increase of regional disparities was evaluated through a set of 13 socioeconomic indicators (gross birth rate, average monthly wage, monthly labour costs per employee, employment rate, unemployment rate, net monthly income and expenses per capita, completed dwellings, creation of GDP, labour productivity per employee in industry and construction, number of organizations focused on generating profit and number of freelancers) which were used in the territorial units at the level of self-governing regions of the Slovak Republic (NUTS III level). In terms of the evaluation and comparison of regional disparities were used the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation for mutual comparison and validation of divergent or convergent tendencies of regional disparities in Slovakia.

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Section: Methodological Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development tendencies of regional disparities in the Slovak Republic

Klamár¹

2016

Geogr Pannon

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“…Kallioras (2010) shows that convergence trends are conditioned on the size of the regional economies, pointing to the possibility of club convergence. Direct evidence for this, with strong regional convergence within, and persistent divergence across clubs, has been offered recently by Artelaris et al (2010; for within-country clubs) and earlier by Fischer and Stirböck (2006;for cross-country clubs).…”

Section: Regional Growth In Cee and The Wider National-development Comentioning

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Regional Growth and National Development: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Regional Kuznets Curve in the East and the West

Monastiriotis¹

2014

Spatial Economic Analysis

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Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially after 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence is often found in the CEE data. To reconcile this apparent paradox, we sketch out and test empirically a hybrid model of regional growth that draws on the regional Kuznets curve and incorporates aspects of cumulative causation and neoclassical convergence. In both CEE and the 'old' EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at intermediate levels of national development and no significant return to convergence thereafter. Although this may show that overall development levels are not sufficient yet to mobilise regional convergence, it is also possible that nonconvergence is attributable to centripetal forces instigated by the process of transition.

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“…Kallioras (2010) shows that NC results are conditioned on the size of the regional economies, with evidence of divergence when population size is taken into account and evidence of convergence otherwise. 4 Given that population is typically higher in more advanced and more dynamic regions, these findings can be interpreted as evidence signalling intra-country polarisation and, possibly, club convergence: smaller (and poorer) regions tend to converge to their own steadystate, but larger regions tend to follow different, more dynamic, paths.…”

Section: Transition Accession and Regional Growth In The Ceecsmentioning

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Regional Growth Dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe

Monastiriotis

2011

SSRN Journal

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This paper examines the regional growth process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe since the start of their transition to market economies. It relates this to three distinctive explanations of regional growth and examines empirically their relevance in explaining the patterns of disparity and polarisation that have emerged in these countries over the last two decades. The collapse of communism and the early transition shock that followed created in many respects an experiment-like situation with a set of 'initial conditions' conducive for analysing patterns of convergence and divergence in the processes of national economic development and cross-national catch-up growth. The path to EU accession intensified the speed of these processes at the national level thus making the corresponding regional evolutions more marked. Our empirical analysis unveils a complex pattern of non-linear regional growth dynamics with convergence tendencies largely swaddled by processes of cumulative causation. Despite the process of national catch-up growth, regional evolutions are on the whole divergent, with a pattern of convergence at the middle-and lower-ends of the distribution and a slower tendency for club formation at the higher end, and thus overall an increasing trend of polarisation.

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Regional Inequalities in the New European Union Member-States: Is There a ‘Population Size’ Effect?

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Development tendencies of regional disparities in the Slovak Republic

Development tendencies of regional disparities in the Slovak Republic

Regional Growth and National Development: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the Regional Kuznets Curve in the East and the West

Regional Growth Dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe

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