Regional inequality in the European Union: Does industry mix matter?

Abstract

Ezcurra R., Gil C., Pascual P. and Rapun M. (2005) Regional inequality in the European Union: does industry mix matter?, Regional Studies 39 , 679-697. The aim of this paper is to test for the respective roles of regional and sectoral factors in productivity convergence in the European Union between 1977 and 1999. The methodology used for this is a new one that combines an alternative version of shift-share analysis with various results quoted in the literature on personal income distribution. The empirical evidence suggests that regional disparity in productivity in the European Union is closely related to intrinsic differences between regions. Whatever the case, the results that emerge also reveal the fundamental role of the country effect in accounting for regional disparities in income per worker in Europe. In addition our empirical results support the relevance of one-sector growth models to explicate per-capita income disparities in the European regions.Regional disparities, Productivity, Shift-share analysis, European Union, Inegalites regionales, Productivite, Analyse redistribution-repartition, Union europeenne, Regionale Ungleichheiten, Produktivitat, Shift-share Analyse, Europaische Union, Disparidades regionales, Productividad, Analisis shift-share, Union Europea, JEL classifications: R10, R11, R58,

The Role of Structural Change in European Regional Productivity Growth

“…It is hypothesized that β is positive and close to unity, which would corroborate the results of Ezcurra et al (2005).…”

“…Again in line with the findings of Ezcurra et al (2005), it is hypothesized that the values of β, especially in Equations (5) and (7), which represent the lower and upper bound, respectively, of the contribution of structural change, are close to zero.…”

“…While the shift-share technique has limitations, especially in the area of forecasting (Stevens and Moore, 1980), it is in widespread use in the analysis of labour re-allocation and growth in the regional literature (see, for example, Le Gallo and Kamarianakis, 2011;Oosterhaven and Broersma, 2007;Ezcurra et al, 2005). The proposed measures avoid the use of initial year's weights of S i,j , which have been widely used and can lead to an under-estimation of the contribution of structural change over time (Broadberry, 1998).…”

“…The importance of structural differences has been shown to have weakened over the last few decades as convergence of productive structures has occurred (Cuadrado-Roura et al, 1999;Gil et al, 2002;Le Gallo and Dall'Erba, 2008) and related to this is a strong consensus that the effects of inter-sectoral structural change on aggregate regional productivity growth and convergence are negligible (Esteban, 2000;Ezcurra et al, 2005;Villaverde and Maza, 2008;Le Gallo and Kamarianakis, 2011).…”

Análise das Mudanças no Número de Ocupados na Indústria Agroalimentar Brasileira

“…A SSA tem sido bastante adotada em trabalhos que investigam a economia regional (ARCELUS, 1984;BROX e CARVALHO, 2008;ESTEBAN-MARQUILLAS, 1972;GARRIDO, 2002;MÁRQUEZ, RAMAJO e HEWINGS, 2009;MAUDOS, PASTOR e SERRANO, 2008;MAYOR e LÓPEZ, 2003;REIG, 2007), além de uma vasta aplicação em trabalho com foco no crescimento do emprego, levando em consideração as diferenças regionais e do setor de atividades (CÖRVERS e MERIKÜLL, 2007; EZCURRA e RAPÚN, 2006;EZCURRA et al, 2005;FOTOPOULOS, 2007;SUEDEKUM e LUDSTECK, 2006).…”