As the cultural and political focus shifts from the nation state to sub-national (e.g. provinces and regions) and supranational aggregations (e.g. the EU), numerous theoretical and empirical studies have shown that spatial clustering heavily influences the efficiency and effectiveness of labour market policies and interventions. This can be explained by a series of local economic and institutional factors that hinder or assist the achievement of particular policy goals. The local clustering of economic activities can be a competitive advantage for an economic system, since collective wage bargaining procedures, firms' training processes, activity rate and unemployment levels (to name just a few) are affected by local customary mformal norms. The aim of the chapter is accordingly to disentangle the relationship between firms' location decisions and labour market functioning, the purpose being to evaluate how spatial variables affect the expected impact of labour policies.
Maggioni, M. A., Gambarotto, F., AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in Caroleo, C. F., De Stefanis, D. S. S. (ed.), Regions, Europe and the Labour Market. Recent Problems and Developments, Springer Verlag, TIERGARTENSTR 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY 2006: <<AIEL SERIES IN LABOUR ECONOMICS>>, 1 123- 146. 10.1007/3-7908-1680-9_5 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/161410]
AIEL Series in Labour Economics
Maggioni, Mario Agostino;
2006
Abstract
As the cultural and political focus shifts from the nation state to sub-national (e.g. provinces and regions) and supranational aggregations (e.g. the EU), numerous theoretical and empirical studies have shown that spatial clustering heavily influences the efficiency and effectiveness of labour market policies and interventions. This can be explained by a series of local economic and institutional factors that hinder or assist the achievement of particular policy goals. The local clustering of economic activities can be a competitive advantage for an economic system, since collective wage bargaining procedures, firms' training processes, activity rate and unemployment levels (to name just a few) are affected by local customary mformal norms. The aim of the chapter is accordingly to disentangle the relationship between firms' location decisions and labour market functioning, the purpose being to evaluate how spatial variables affect the expected impact of labour policies.
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