Do EU structural funds promote regional employment? Evidence from dynamic panel data models.

Autor/inn/en	Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias
Institution	Europäische Zentralbank
Titel	Do EU structural funds promote regional employment? Evidence from dynamic panel data models. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Fördert der EU-Strukturfonds die regionale Beschäftigung?
Quelle	Frankfurt, Main (2011), 46 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	European Central Bank. Working paper series. 1403
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1725-2806
Schlagwörter	Erfolgskontrolle; Europäischer Strukturfonds; Beschäftigungseffekt; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Regionaler Vergleich; Europäische Union
Abstract	"Despite its rather broad goal of promoting 'economic, social and territorial cohesion', the existing literature has mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999-2007. Compared to previous studies we (i) explicitly take into account the unambiguous theoretical propositions by testing the conditional impact of structural funds on the educational attainment of the regional labour supply, (ii) use more precise measures of structural funds for an extended time horizon and (iii) examine the robustness of our results by comparing different dynamic panel econometric approaches to control for heteroscedasticity, serial and spatial correlation as well as for endogeneity. Our results indicate that high-skilled population in particular benefits from EU structural funds." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Evaluation; anwendungsorientiert; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1999 bis 2007.
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2012/2