This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. By assuming the same … time. Second, the introduction of non-homotheticity introduces a new channel through which growth is affected by trade … costs and agglomeration. In particular, integration is always growth-enhancing while agglomeration is growth-detrimental. …

The picture on disparities in productivity growth and in unemployment across European regions reveals the existence of … in the growth and employment regional performances. The main theoretical hypotheses upon which our empirical … on aggregate growth is studied. Part of our evidence is based on the use of cluster analysis to identify subsets of …

equations. The estimation method is a three-stage least squares. My empirical results find that although faster TFP growth … first year I do not find any statistically significant effect of growth on employment. …