In Nineties , because the disparities among regions prove significantly greater than those among countries, analysis of the causes of the socio-economic differences among the European regions has attracted increasing interest. This strand of analysis has been prompted mainly by the fact that the creation of the European Union was based on the belief that a broader area of free trade would be a necessary and sufficient condition for economic welfare to spread uniformly among countries.The aim of this chapter is to apply a multivariate factorial analysis method (the STATIS method) which, we believe, lends itself well to verification of most of the phenomena just described. The STATIS method, in fact, enables the European regions to be 'read' on the basis of factors that sum up their main socio-economic characteristics, to group them into homogeneous clusters, and to examine their temporal dynamics. It can therefore be used to estimate whether structural features favour the formation of clusters of regions and whether these display a tendency to converge either to a single structure or instead to a multiplicity of socio-economic structures.

Regional Disparities in Europe

AMENDOLA, Adalgiso;COPPOLA, Gianluigi
2006-01-01

Abstract

In Nineties , because the disparities among regions prove significantly greater than those among countries, analysis of the causes of the socio-economic differences among the European regions has attracted increasing interest. This strand of analysis has been prompted mainly by the fact that the creation of the European Union was based on the belief that a broader area of free trade would be a necessary and sufficient condition for economic welfare to spread uniformly among countries.The aim of this chapter is to apply a multivariate factorial analysis method (the STATIS method) which, we believe, lends itself well to verification of most of the phenomena just described. The STATIS method, in fact, enables the European regions to be 'read' on the basis of factors that sum up their main socio-economic characteristics, to group them into homogeneous clusters, and to examine their temporal dynamics. It can therefore be used to estimate whether structural features favour the formation of clusters of regions and whether these display a tendency to converge either to a single structure or instead to a multiplicity of socio-economic structures.
2006
9783790816792
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