Agglomeration and Regional Unemployment Disparities

In the European Union, unemployment rates differ markedly across regions, both within and across nations. This study presents a coherent theoretical approach to explain the emergence and persistence of such regional unemployment disparities. The analysis builds on the wage curve literature, and on regional agglomeration theories like the new economic geography. These theoretical strings are combined and extended, in order to provide a unified framework.

Autorentext

The Author: Jens Südekum was born in Goslar, Germany, in 1975. Since 1996 he studied economics at the University of Göttingen and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his diploma in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Göttingen in 2003.

Inhalt
Contents: Regional disparities in the EU The «European Labour Marked Model» The wage curve New economic geography Regional agglomeration and regional unemployment Internal migration and regional disparities.