There is a consensus that the European Union should modernise its budget, tackling the
new challenges and breaking away from bureaucratic inertia and the juste retour logic that …

Since the reform of the Structural Funds in 1989, the EU has made the principle of cohesion
one of its key policies. Much of the language of European cohesion policy eschews the idea …

Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not
narrowed substantially over the last two decades, and by some measures have even …

Europe's regions Income disparities and regional policies In this paper we take a critical look
at current European regional policies. First, we document the motivation for such policies …

Rodríguez-Pose A. and Fratesi U.(2004) Between development and social policies: the
impact of European Structural Funds in Objective 1 regions, Reg. Studies 38, 97–113 …

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community
and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the …

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Differences in employment-population ratios across US commuting zones have persisted for
many decades. We claim these disparities represent real gaps in economic opportunity for …

This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It
has three main aims.(i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea …

In recent empirical literature on spatial agglomeration, many papers find evidence consistent
with location‐specific externalities of some sort. Our willingness to accept evidence of …