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T1 New regional convergence in productivity and productive structure : application to european southern countries
A1 Maroto Sánchez, Andrés
A1 Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.
K1 Regional convergence
K1 Productivity
K1 Productive Structure
K1 Convergencia regional
K1 Productividad
K1 Estructura productiva
K1 R11, R23, O40
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Diverse approaches have been used to analyse the hypothesis of convergence betweenEuropean regions. This paper is particularly focused on productivity trends and the effectsof changes in regional productive structures, which seems to be the main source of theobserved productivity convergence. The crucial mechanism explaining this last process(labour apparent productivity) is the transfer of labour from the less productive activitiesto the most ones, a fact that has been particularly important in the poorest regions. Theapparent exhaustion of this process runs in parallel to the progressive end of regionalconvergence in income per capita. So convergence of productive structures seems to bethe factor explaining the apparent contradiction between the observed convergence ofaggregate productivity levels and the absence (or clear reduction) of productivityconvergence within the different sectors. The analysis intends to show that theconvergence process is probably exhausted through this way. The core point of the paperis sigma convergence in GDP approach as well as the productive structure convergence.The paper takes as a reference those regions included in five European Mediterraneancountries (Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal), but it always compare with theaggregate behaviour in the EURO zone. Data base used come from the European Regionaldatabase by Cambridge Econometrics, and the time period ranges from 1980 to 2006.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social
YR 2008
FD 2008
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6531
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6531
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024