A simple theoretical framework is presented, enabling the assessment of the government’s role in industrial and regional labour reallocation that follow from large-scale restructuring in the labour market. The experiences of East Germany and Poland in this regard are then compared and...

The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate on the continuity/fracture of regional patterns of development and employment in old and new European Union (EU) regions. Several contributions in this book suggest that a factor common to all backward regions, often neglected in the...

This paper investigates the extent to which the patterns of regional unemployment in Poland since the early 1990s can be explained by regional imbalances in the supply and demand for skilled labour. Indeed, massive changes in the relative demand for skilled labour are found to have taken place...

The focus of this chapter is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour markets. EU economies are undergoing dramatic industrial restructuring due to a number of causes, such as the Eastward enlargement and economic integration of Central...

This paper studies Canada international trade flows with its major trading partners. We examine bilateral trade flows between Canada and the US and we use panel cointegration methodology to estimate the import and export elasticities and we show that the Marshall-Lerner condition does hold. We...

This paper presents an essay on empirical testing procedure for economic convergence. Referring to the unit root test proposed by Moon and Perron (2004), we proposed a modified Evans (1996) testing procedure of the convergence hypothesis. The advantage of this modified procedure is that it makes...

(VF)Nous proposons ici une modification de la procédure de test de convergence en panel d'Evans et Karras (1996). La littérature empirique sur la convergence économique a tendance à ignorer les phénomènes d'interdépendances et de changement structurel qui affectent l'équation de...

(VF)Nous proposons ici une modification de la procédure de test de convergence en panel d'Evans et Karras (1996). La littérature empirique sur la convergence économique a tendance à ignorer les phénomènes d'interdépendances et de changement structurel qui affectent l'équation de...

The economic nature of agricultural cooperatives is explained by means of a logical continuation of the organizational economics rationale for family farms. The traditional explanations of the importance of family farms is discussed, and embedded in a broader framework which considers their...

The Philippines has undergone gradual but substantial changes in industrial structure over the past few decades, and these have been associated with the change in the geographical distribution of economic activity. This study analyzes changes in the determinants of regional income inequality in...