The Impact of European Integration on Regional Structural Change and Cohesion

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-40024-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Edited by three European editors and spanning across Europe, this excellent study focuses on the effects of the European integration process on the inter-regional division of labour in both western and Eastern European countries.

Using extensive empirical analysis of the changes of regional specialization over a period of two decades, observing its causes and consequences the authors show economic integration as a relocation of resources across sectors and space.

The authors argue that the resulting challenge to both regional and social cohesion in the enlarged European Union may require a reorientation of cohesion policy at European, national and local levels. Disaggregated national data sets with respect to both the sectoral and spatial levels are combined with an analysis of both regional structural change and the role of foreign direct investment in this process.

This book will be of great interest to post graduate students and researchers interested in international trade and regional economics as well as policy makers engaged with regional and structural changes at both a European and national level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krieger-Boden, Christiane

Morgenroth, Edgar

Petrakos, George

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Europäische Union, Europa: Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Regional structural change and cohesion in the enlarged European Union: an introduction 2 Specialization and concentration in a polarized country: the case of Italian regions 3 Economic integration and structural change: the case of Irish regions 4 A Southern perspective on economic integration and structural change: the case of Greek regions 5 Southern enlargement and structural change: case studies of Spain, Portugal and France 6 Regional structural change at the interface between old and new member states: the case of Austrian regions 7 Eastern enlargement in a nutshell: case study of Germany 8 European integration, regional structural change and cohesion in Poland 9 Economic integration and structural change: the case of Hungarian regions 10 Regional economic divergence patterns in the Czech Republic 11 The regional economic structure of Romania, 1992–2001 12 Economic integration and structural change: the case of Bulgarian regions 13 The location of multinational enterprises in Central and Eastern European countries 14 Structural change and regional policy: concluding remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Christiane Krieger-Boden is a Research Associate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. Dr Edgar Morgenroth is a Senior Research Officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. Dr George Petrakos is a Professor of Spatial Economics at the University of Thessaly in Greece.