Structural funds and regional convergence: some sectoral estimates for italy
| Autor: | Sergio Destefanis, Gianluigi Coppola |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Macroeconomics
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics business.industry European Structural Funds Malmquist index Non-parametric frontiers Total factor productivity Industrial Relations Convergence (economics) European Social Fund International trade Capital accumulation Agriculture Economics business Productivity |
| Zdroj: | Geographical Labor Market Imbalances ISBN: 9783642552021 |
| Popis: | In this chapter, we assess the European Structural Funds’ effects on the economies of the 20 Italian administrative regions for the period 1989–2006. The principal novelties of this chapter are that the empirical analysis separately considers the effects on four sectors (agriculture, energy and manufacturing, construction, and services), and we employ a non-parametric FDH-VP to calculate Malmquist productivity indexes. This allows us to distinguish the Funds’ effects on factor accumulation from those on total productivity changes. Our evidence implies that the Funds had a weak, but significant, impact on total factor productivity change but virtually no effect on capital accumulation or employment. Different types of Structural Funds are found to have widely different influences, with the European Social Fund, arguably, having the strongest impact. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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