In order to examine the impact of the economic crisis on the home ownership pattern, we first review the basic structural features of the Greek housing system. This necessarily involves a discussion of the distinctive home ownership regimes found in Southern European countries as well as the...

Following a brief introduction to the impact of globalization and economic restructuring on urban social structures, the paper depicts the for-mation of the socio-spatial structure of Athens in recent decades, the problems accumulated by the traditional regulation of urban sociospatial issues,...

Using Local Labor Systems (LLSs) data, we assess the effect of the local productive structure on employment growth in Italy during the period 1981-2008. Italy represents an interesting case study because of the high degree of spatial heterogeneity in local labor market performances and of the...

As the European Union will soon enlarge to ten new members, the question of the future of European policies, in particular the regional policies, remains problematic. The differences in labour productivity between the current applicants are obvious, but these differences are also present between...

This article aims to analyze the implications of economic integration policies in the convergence or the divergence process among developing countries according to their regional membership. In other words, does or does not regional integration induce the intra- or inter-zone convergence? What...

The negative relationship between wages and unemployment, embodied within the so-called wage curve, has an extensive literature and has been referred to as ‘an empirical law of economics’. However there are newer alternative theories that seek to explain the variation in wages without...

La mesure des disparités régionales dans l’Union européenne a été largement abordée dans la littérature, notamment grâce à l’utilisation de modèles de convergence la plupart du temps basés sur des spécifications néo-classiques. Plus récemment, certains travaux ont mis en...

This study analyzes information technology embodied in the stock of capital. A panel dataset is constructed for the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, covering 52 industry categories from 1977 through 1997. The data come from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. This dataset is separately...

As we hypothesize, the selection of observation units may become a critical consideration for an empirical investigation of Gibrat’s Law, according to which the growth of cities is expected to be independent of their sizes. In order to verify this hypothesis, we investigate whether the...

We propose a semi-parametric spatial auto-covariance specification of the growth model to examine the growth behaviour of European regions in the period 1988-2000. This specification simultaneously takes account of the problems of non-linearities and spatial dependence. We obtain two main...