Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Wirkierman, Ariel L.
Author-Email: a.wirkierman@gold.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Management Studies(IMS), Goldsmiths,
	 University of London
Author-Name: Ciarli, Tommaso
Author-Email: ciarli@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU),
	 University of Sussex
Author-Name: Savonna, Maria
Author-Email: M.Savona@sussex.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex,
	 and Department of Economics and Finance, Luiss University
Title: A map of the fractal structure of high-tech dynamics across EU regions
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.
Classification-JEL: R11, O30, C38
Keywords: Regional high-tech employment, Regional wage rate differentials, Cluster
	 Analysis, European cohesion policy
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20210517
Number: 2021-023
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2021/wp2021-023.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2021023