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The delimitation and coherence of functional and administrative regions
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Abstract
We test whether functional regions in the Netherlands show more labour market coherence between the municipalities included in them than the Dutch administrative regions. It turns out that regional disparities are not significantly smaller within functional than within administrative regions with re... view more
We test whether functional regions in the Netherlands show more labour market coherence between the municipalities included in them than the Dutch administrative regions. It turns out that regional disparities are not significantly smaller within functional than within administrative regions with respect to income level, housing prices, employment rate and unemployment rate. We argue that the numerous functional delimitations of the labour market that have been made for many countries in other studies are only useful for policy making if they clearly outperform the administrative delimitations with respect to some relevant indicators of labour market coherence or regional disparities.... view less
Classification
Employment Research
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 19-31
Journal
Regional Studies, 43 (2009) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701654103
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)