Agglomeration and Regional Unemployment Disparities : : A Theoretical Analysis with Reference to the European Union.

• Superior document: Cege-Schriften Series ; v.6
• Author: Südekum, Jens.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2003.; {copy}2004.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cege-Schriften Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Forewords -- Table of contents -- List of tables, figures and maps -- Introduction -- A) Spatial economic disparities within the European Union: The evidence -- A1) Preface: Level of spatial disaggregation and the choice of territorial units -- A2) Gross domestic product (GDP) -- A2.1.) GDP of European NUTS II-regions, 1999 -- A2.2.) Regional convergence versus divergence in Europe -- A3) Regional unemployment in Europe -- A3.1.) Unemployment rates in NUTS2-regions, 2000 -- A3.2.) Convergence versus divergence of regional unemployment rates -- A4) Other regional indicators -- A4.1.) Employment Growth -- A4.2.) Population Density, Population Changes and Migration -- A4.3.) Education -- A4.4.) Innovation and research activities -- A5) A closer look at the West German Länder -- A6) Summing up the evidence -- B) Macroeconomic theories of unemployment and the "European labour market model" -- B1) Introduction -- B2) A brief historical overview about macroeconomics -- B2.1.) The 'classics' -- B2.2.) Keynes and the neoclassical synthesis -- B2.3.) Friedman and the 'natural rate of unemployment' -- B2.4.) 'New classical macroeconomics' and rational expectations -- B2.5.) The Keynesian response -- B3) The "European labour market model (ELMM)" -- B3.1.) Why is there insider power in the labour market -- B3.2.) The aggregate wage setting curve -- B3.3.) The aggregate price setting curve -- B3.4.) Equilibrium in the ELMM -- B3.5.) Some further issues of the ELMM -- C) The wage curve -- C1) Introduction -- C2) The wage curve as an empirical regularity -- C3) Wage curve theory: The Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C3.1.) The partial equilibrium foundation of the wage curve -- C3.2.) General equilibrium in the Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C3.3.) Critique of the Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C4) The model of Blien (2001).

C4.1.) Partial labour market equilibrium in the Blien-model -- C4.2.) The product market and general equilibrium in the Blien-model -- C4.3.) Critique of the Blien-model -- C5) Conclusion on wage curve theory and motivation for an own approach -- D) Regional agglomeration theory and 'new economic geography' -- D1) Introduction -- D2) Scale economies, externalities, and market competition -- D3) The Marshallian agglomeration economies -- D4) Centrifugal forces and other location factors -- D5) The core-periphery model of 'new economic geography' -- D5.1.) Consumer behaviour -- D5.2.) Production -- D5.3.) Equilibrium conditions -- D5.4.) Sustainability -- D5.5.) Stability -- D5.6.) 'New economic geography' and the new trade theory -- D6) Other 'new economic geography'-models -- D6.1.) Venables (1996) and Krugman/Venables (1995) -- D6.2.) Housing scarcity: Helpman (1998) -- D6.3.) Analytically tractable models -- D6.4.) More sectors, more regions -- D6.5.) Dynamic models -- D6.6.) Empirics, politics, and other unsettled issues -- D7) Regional costs-of-living: An extension of the Krugman-model -- D7.1.) Regional costs-of-living: the evidence -- D7.2.) The basic structure of the extended model -- D7.3.) Sustainability and stability -- D7.4.) Conclusion of our approach -- Appendix -- E) Regional agglomeration and regional unemployment -- E1) Introduction -- E2) The existing literature -- E2.1.) The model of Matusz (1996) -- E2.2.) The model of Peeters/Garretsen (2000) -- E3) Regional agglomeration and the wage curve: The model -- E3.1.) The closed-economy setting -- E3.2.) The two-region case with imperfect trade -- E3.3.) The impact of labour mobility -- E4) Critical discussion of our model approach -- E4.1.) Discussion of the model from a theoretical point of view -- E4.2.) Discussion of the model from an empirical point of view -- E5) Further issues.

F) Internal migration and regional disparities -- F1) Introduction -- F2) The causes of internal migration -- F3) The consequences of internal migration: The neoclassical view -- F4) Internal migration and regional divergence: alternative views -- F4.1.) Increasing returns to scale -- F4.2.) Selective labour migration -- F5) Selective migration in a two-region model -- F5.1.) The full-employment case -- F5.2.) Union wage setting and unskilled unemployment -- F5.3.) Conclusion of the model with constant returns to scale -- F6) Agglomeration, worker heterogeneity and national union wage setting -- F6.1.) The full employment case -- F6.2.) The case with unemployment -- F7) Discussion of the theoretical models and their empirical relevance -- F7.1.) Discussion from a theoretical point of view -- F7.2.) Discussion from an empirical point of view -- Concluding remarks -- List of references.