Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326782 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2021-023
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
Abstract: 
The paper provides a novel, theoretically driven map of EU regional asymmetries, based on the shares and dynamics of high-tech employment and wages, as well as the structure of inter-regional Input-Output relations at the EU NUTS-1 regional level. We use data from EUROSTAT and the EU-REGIO database to perform a trade-aware shift-share analysis coupled with a hierarchical clustering. We show that EU regions present a fractal structure of asymmetries, i.e. the emergence of core-periphery relations at progressively smaller scales, in relation to both spatial and trade dimensions. We identify regional clusters labelled 'consolidated core', 'declining core', 'emerging cities', 'declining peripheries' and 'CEE factories', and we show that there is a polarising dynamics between driving and follower clusters, drawing implications for EU cohesion policy.
Subjects: 
Regional high-tech employment
Regional wage rate differentials
Cluster Analysis
European cohesion policy
JEL: 
R11
O30
C38
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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