Services Sectors' Concentration: The European Union, Greece, and the New Economic Geography

New Economic Geography And Educational Attainment Levels In The European Union

International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) ◽

10.19030/iber.v4i8.3613 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (8) ◽

Author(s):

Jesus Lopez-Rodriguez ◽

J. Andres Faina Medin ◽

Jose Lopez-Rodriguez

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Educational Attainment ◽

Economic Geography ◽

New Economic Geography ◽

The European Union ◽

Consumer Markets ◽

Theoretical Predictions

In this paper a New Economic Geography model is used to analyse the distribution of educational attainment levels in the European Union. The results show that educational attainment levels decrease with distance to large consumer markets, proving that the theoretical predictions of the model are verified empirically.

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Regional Structure of Wages in Poland Over the Period 1995-2009

Equilibrium ◽

10.12775/equil.2013.020 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 65-78

Author(s):

Andrzej Cieślik ◽

Bartłomiej Rokicki

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Economic Integration ◽

Economic Geography ◽

Increasing Returns ◽

New Economic Geography ◽

The European Union ◽

Regional Structure ◽

The Core ◽

The Impact ◽

Wage Inequalities

In this paper, we test empirically for the increasing returns-based agglomeration and investigate the impact of the economic integration with the European Union on regional wage inequalities in Poland. In our study, we use the wage data for 16 Polish regions over the period of 1995-2009. Our results are consistent with the predictions of the core-periphery models of the New Economic Geography. In particular, we find that wages decrease as one moves away from the Mazowiecki capital region, as well as from the border with Germany.

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