Over the past decades, significant structural changes have occurred in European countries' labour markets. In this work, the following goals were set: to study the spatial features of the distribution of the educational potential of the economically active population; to analyse the investment...

The paper asks whether subsidies aiming to redistribute economic activity across regions can be justified with the welfare argument. Moreover, different tax systems are compared with respect to the size of the subsidy needed for achieving a certain spatial distribution of economic activity, and...