Employment and Regional Development in Italy

  1. Maria-Carmen Guisan 1
  2. Eva Aguayo 1
  1. 1 University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Journal:
Applied econometrics and international development

ISSN: 1578-4487

Year of publication: 2002

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 41-72

Type: Article

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Abstract

This article presents a comparison of the evolution of employment rates by sector in Italy with the European Union averages. We analyse the main causes of the differences of the rates of non-agrarian employment, between northern and southern regions, as well as the inter-relation between the evolution of employment and the spatial distribution of population, by means of inter-regional econometric models, bearing in mind the inter-relation between industry and services and the role of other factors that explain the evolution of regional development. The period of analysis is 1960-2000 for national data and 1985-1995 for regional data.

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