AIEL Series in Labour Economics

AIEL Series in Labour Economics

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Chiara Mussida Francesco Pastore Editors Geographical Labor Market Imbalances Recent Explanations and Cures 123

Editors Chiara Mussida Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Piacenza Italy Francesco Pastore Department of Law Seconda Università di Napoli Santa Maria Capua Vetere Italy ISSN 1863-916X ISSN 2197-9340 (electronic) AIEL Series in Labour Economics ISBN 978-3-642-55202-1 ISBN 978-3-642-55203-8 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55203-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937193 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer. com)

Acknowledgements This edited book is a collection of some of the most remarkable contributions dealing with regional issues and presented at the XXVII AIEL (Italian Association of Labor Economists) Conference held at University of Naples II, at the Faculty of Law in Santa Maria Capua Vetere and in the magnificent scenario of the Royal Palace of Caserta on the 27th and 28th of September 2012. It is the eighth volume in the AIEL series published with Springer Verlag. Like all the other volumes in the series, it will be indexed in a number of important bibliographic repositories, such as, among others, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scupus, Ebsco, IDEAS/RePEc. This guarantees that also this book, similar to other books in the series, will represent an important outlet for the scholars who have contributed to it. It is important to notice that each chapter included in the volumes within the AIEL series has recorded a large and increasing number of downloads and citations. Some volumes reach for instance about 1,000 downloads per year. This popularity is also a sign of the quality and effort that the editors of the books in the series have traditionally put in making this product of the highest quality in its type, as shown, for instance, by the selection and refereeing process implemented in preparing the volume. This volume is no exception under this respect. Every chapter of this book has been first of all selected among a number of possible candidates. In addition, it has undergone a double blind refereeing process, involving in addition to one internal referee, essentially one of the editors, also from one to three external referees. We feel greatly indebted to all of them for their generosity, wisdom, and competence. Below is the full list of referees who have contributed with their valuable work to publishing a better volume. We are proud to notice that researchers coming from seven different countries have contributed to this collective effort. In addition, 8 out of 26 referees, including the editors, are non-italians. This confirms the international dimension of labor market research in Italy and in particular of the AIEL conference. As it is possible to check in the renewed and dynamical Web site of the association, an increasing number of conference participants are from abroad. v

vi Acknowledgements Importantly, this book would have not been possible without the financial support of a number of institutions. First is the Italian Association of Labor Economists. We wish to especially thank the two Presidents of the Associations during the period of preparation of the book, namely Sergio Pietro Destefanis and Claudio Lucifora. We wish also to thank all the executive board of the association, which includes in addition to one of the editors, Francesco Pastore, also Elisabetta Addis, Donata Favaro, Marco Leonardi, Paolo Naticchioni, and Dario Sciulli. Second, we wish to thank the departments where we work, which have also contributed in various ways to the publication of the book, namely the Department of Law of Seconda Università di Napoli and the Departments of Economic and Social Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza). In addition, this book has benefited of the support of a number of people without whom this book would not have been as interesting as it hopefully is. Among them we wish to thank Katharina Wetzel-Vandai whose support and incitement have been important at different stages of the production process. Last but not least, are the personal thanks of the authors to their closest persons. Francesco wishes to thank his wife, Linda, and his daughter, Serena, because they give him more strength to make more bearable the difficult work connected with editing a book like this. Chiara wishes to thank all the people, in addition to those mentioned, who have contributed to this book with their comments and suggestions. List of Referees Elisabetta Addis, University of Sassari Roberto Basile, University of Naples II Maurizio Baussola, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza) Giulio Cainelli, University of Padova Floro Ernesto Caroleo, University of Naples Parthenope Francesco Crespi, University of Rome 3 Polona Domadenik, University of Ljubljana Aleksandra Gregoric, Copenhagen Business School Bersant Hobdari, Copenhagen Business School Peter Huber, WIFO Austrian Institute of Economic Research Steffen Kunn, IZA Institute for the Study of Labor Marco Leonardi, University of Milan Ornella Maietta, University of Naples Federico II Massimo Marelli, University of Brescia Paolo Masella, University of Sussex Chiara Mussida, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza) Raffaele Paci, University of Cagliari Francesco Pastore, Seconda Università di Napoli and IZA of Bonn Francesco Prota, University of Bari Aldo Moro Tjasa Redek, University of Ljubljana

Acknowledgements vii Laura Resmini, University of Milan Bocconi Giuseppe Rose, University of Cosenza Marcello Signorelli, University of Perugia Andrea Vaona, University of Verona John V. Winters, Oklahoma State University Martin Zagler, University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro and Department Volkswirtschaft WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Contents 1 Introduction... 1 Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore Part I Determinants of Regional Unemployment 2 Worker Turnover Across Italian Regions... 17 Chiara Mussida and Francesco Pastore 3 Spatial Patterns of German Labor Market: Panel Data Analysis of Regional Unemployment... 37 Elena Semerikova 4 Compensating Wage Differentials Across Russian Regions... 65 Aleksey Oshchepkov 5 Convergence Across Regions in Kazakhstan... 107 Alisher Aldashev Part II Agglomeration Economies 6 Agglomeration Economies and Employment Growth in Italy... 121 Roberto Basile, Cristiana Donati, and Rosanna Pittiglio 7 Do Agglomeration Externalities Enhance Regional Performances in Production Process? A Stochastic Frontier Approach... 143 Massimiliano Agovino and Agnese Rapposelli 8 Employers Agglomeration and Innovation in a Small Business Economy: The Italian Case... 167 Giuseppe Croce, Edoardo Di Porto, Emanuela Ghignoni, and Andrea Ricci ix

x Contents Part III Differences in Human Capital and R&D 9 Do FDI in Business Services Affect Firms TFP? Evidence from Italian Provinces... 195 Massimo Armenise, Giorgia Giovannetti, and Gianluca Santoni 10 Explaining the Patenting Propensity: A Regional Analysis Using EPO-OECD Data... 219 Claudio Cozza and Francesco Schettino 11 Family Origin and Early School Leaving in Italy: The Long-Term Effects of Internal Migration... 237 Carmen Aina, Giorgia Casalone, and Paolo Ghinetti 12 The Effect of University Costs and Institutional Incentives on Enrolments: Empirical Evidence for Italian Regions... 261 Claudia Pigini and Stefano Staffolani 13 Globalized Markets, Globalized Information, and Female Employment: Accounting for Regional Differences in 30 OECD Countries... 283 Justina A.V. Fischer Part IV Regional Policy 14 Structural Funds and Regional Convergence: Some Sectoral Estimates for Italy... 307 Gianluigi Coppola and Sergio Destefanis 15 Fostering the Self-Employment in Spain: An Evaluation of the Capitalisation of Unemployment Benefits Programme... 335 Matías Mayor, Begoña Cueto, and Patricia Suárez 16 Regional Price Indices and Real Wage Equalization in Poland... 353 Bartłomiej Rokicki

Contributors Massimiliano Agovino Department of Business and Economic Studies, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy Carmen Aina Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy Alisher Aldashev International School of Economics, Kazach-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan Massimo Armenise ISTAT, Roma, Italy Roberto Basile Department of Economics, Second University of Naples, Capua (CE), Italy Giorgia Casalone Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy Gianluigi Coppola CELPE Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica, DISES Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy Claudio Cozza Department of Economics, Management, Mathematics and Statistics Bruno de Finetti, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Giuseppe Croce Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Begoña Cueto Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain Sergio Destefanis CELPE Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica, DISES Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy Edoardo Di Porto DISES University of Federico II, Naples, Italy xi

xii Contributors Cristiana Donati Second University of Naples, Capua (CE), Italy Justina A.V. Fischer University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Emanuela Ghignoni Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Paolo Ghinetti Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy Giorgia Giovannetti European University Institute and Fondazione Manlio Masi, University of Florence, Florence, Italy Matías Mayor Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA), Rimini, Italy Chiara Mussida Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy Aleksey Oshchepkov Center for Labour Market Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Francesco Pastore Department of Law, Seconda Università di Napoli, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta, Italy Claudia Pigini Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy Rosanna Pittiglio Second University of Naples, Capua (CE), Italy Agnese Rapposelli Department of Economics of G.d Annunzio, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy Andrea Ricci Statistical Office ISFOL, Rome, Italy Bartłomiej Rokicki Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Gianluca Santoni Institute of Economics, Sant Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy Francesco Schettino Department of Law, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy Elena Semerikova National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia Stefano Staffolani Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy Patricia Suárez Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain