Unemployment by gender and gender catching‐up: Empirical evidence from the Italian regions

Belloc, Marianna; Tilli, Riccardo

doi:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00427.x

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“…In a context of international integration, especially in the earlier periods, market forces determine a concentration of activities and an increase of regional disparities (Williamson 1965). This is due to the cumulative nature of development processes in macroeconomic and microeconomic terms (increasing returns to scale at the firm and urban level, in-migrations and widening of internal markets; cumulative technical progress ;Myrdal 1957;Krugman 1991;Fujita et al 1999;Belloc and Tilli 2013;Honglin Zhang 2014) and the limited capacity of spontaneous adjustment processes to rebalance differentiated regional starting conditions and underdevelopment traps (Capello 2007;Barca 2009). In the presence of the new challenges of a globalizing world, these processes are enhanced by the higher resilience and reaction capability of stronger regions.…”

Section: Macroeconomic Conditions and Regional Disparities In The Eumentioning

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Rationale and design of EU cohesion policies in a period of crisis

Camagni

Capello

2015

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The paper reflects on justifications for, and the proper design of, cohesion policies in a period of deep economic recession. In particular, the paper tackles two important topics. The first concerns the justification for EU regional policies in a period of economic downturn, since they may seem less urgent and appropriate than short term demand policies. Instead, as the paper argues, the crisis exerts considerable pressure on several EU countries, and may even, in the worst case, jeopardize two decades of efforts towards EU enlargement and cohesion. In this circumstance, regional policies are required to rebalance the spatial effects that the ongoing crisis is determining on interregional convergence trends, in strict relationship with some new monetary and fiscal policy tools agreed at the EU level lifting the pressure that present austerity measures are exerting on many, mainly Southern, European countries. The second topic relates to the most appropriate design that cohesion policies should follow, building in a critical way on the results of the robust policy debate of the last decade. The message that the paper conveys from a conceptual point of view is that the winning strategy is neither to focus on champion places and regions, in search of the highest efficiency, nor on lagging areas only, in search of equity, but on the development potential of all places, represented by its territorial capital – material, human, cognitive, social and relational. Policies should be tailored on each region's specificities, competitive advantage and needs, engaging all possible assets and enlarging existing excellences. This pathway simultaneously avoids the social and economic costs of a concentrated development and is able to guarantee the highest returns in terms of both competitiveness and cohesion. The paper concludes by proposing suggestions on how to respond to the specific and particular challenges that the New Member countries of the EU are now facing, on the basis of the previous conceptual and empirical evidence.

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Section: Macroeconomic Conditions and Regional Disparities In The Eumentioning

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Rationale and design of EU cohesion policies in a period of crisis

Camagni

Capello

2015

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Queneau and Sen (2012) using univariate unit-root tests find that US unemployment rates disaggregated by gender are characterized by the hysteresis hypothesis. Belloc and Tilli (2012), by examining the dynamics of unemployment rates by gender in Italian regions using unit root tests with structural breaks, show that the gender unemployment gap has narrowed. However, most of these studies use univariate methods to explore the dynamics of unemployment rates for men and women.…”

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Unemployment by Gender: Evidence from EU Countries

Bakas

Papapetrou

2013

Int Adv Econ Res

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This paper applies panel unit-root tests that allow for structural breaks and cross-sectional dependence to examine the validity of hysteresis in gender unemployment rates and gender unemployment gap for a panel of 15 European countries. Addressing breaks, there is evidence to reject the null hypothesis of hysteresis for the unemployment rates and unemployment gap series. Allowing for both cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneous structural breaks this result is reverted and we fail to reject the null hypothesis of unit root.

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“…The exception to the rule examples is Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles -G45, which became weak-oriented sector. It is also worth to note that Computer programming, consultancy, and related activities; information service activities -J62-63 joined this group of sectors, indicating that ICT activities have gained in importance, as a result of strong FDI inflow from Western Europe in this sector (Belloc & Tilli, 2013).…”

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“…The globalization, parallel with internationalization, shaped structural change in the CEE region and their influence become more pronounced after 2000. Namely, unlike to EU-15 whose growth was based on a mix of high and low-value-added service activities, CEE economies based their growth strategies on the attraction of manufacturing plants off-shored mostly from Western EU countries and FDI from all over the world (Belloc & Tilli, 2013). EU has an active role in the sharpening of FDI inflows to the region (Medve-Bálint, 2014).…”

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Patterns of Structural Changes in Cee Economies in New Millennium

Fedajev

Nikolić

Rădulescu

et al. 2019

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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In the era of intensive globalization and frequent economic shocks, boosting the GDP growth becomes the most difficult task and main preoccupation of policymakers. This is particularly true for Central Eastern European countries or so called CEE countries, which are trying to overcome contemporary and inherited imbalances at the same time. These economies were faced with another huge challenge after 2008. They have to maintain the same pace of structural reforms during the global economic crisis and to mitigate the negative effects of the crisis on economic growth. In that sense, the aim of this paper is to provide insight into a structural change in these economies in the period 2000–2014, using Leontief input-output analysis of the key sectors. The results pointed out that most of the key sectors during the period are service related sectors and that their number is increased after the crisis, while manufacturing of basic metals and electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply have lost the status of the key sector.

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Unemployment by gender and gender catching‐up: Empirical evidence from the Italian regions

Cited by 16 publications

References 44 publications

Rationale and design of EU cohesion policies in a period of crisis

Rationale and design of EU cohesion policies in a period of crisis

Unemployment by Gender: Evidence from EU Countries

Patterns of Structural Changes in Cee Economies in New Millennium

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