Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets Pedro Ferreira Eurostat 2/3-Oct-2008

Structure of my talk Definitions Methodological aspects NUTS 2 versus NUTS 3 Results Dissemination Statistics in Focus 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Regional Disparity Measures is a way to measure regional cohesion Definitions (1) Regional Disparity Measures are an indicator of how different regions are within a country or within Europe High disparities mean that regions are very different: some are developing faster and some are lagging behind Low disparities mean more cohesion Regional Disparity Measures is a way to measure regional cohesion 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Definitions (2) “Dispersion rate” is the coefficient of variation (CV) of employment rates or unemployment rates, weighted by the regional population “Underperforming regions” are regions that have a relative high unemployment rate or a relative low employment rate Relative high unemployment: > 150% of the national rate Relative low employment: < 90% of the national rate 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Methodological aspects Weighted CV means that the size of the region is taken into account. each regional rate is multiplied by its relative size Data aspects: registered data is used to break down LFS data if and only if NUTS 3 LFS data is not available 10 out of 27 MS are based on registered data This is 46% of all unemployment and 44% of all employment Type of UPR indicators: after identifying the UPR regions, the number of regions, the percentage of UPR regions and the percentage of population on those regions are computed 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Quality of NUTS level 3 estimates 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Results – Dispersion of unemployment rates 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Dispersion of unemployment 2006 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Results – Underperforming regions (unemployment) 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Dissemination Regional labour market disparities are now a special collection of tables in NewCronos. They are public since a few days.

Statistics in Focus The first SiF about regional labour market disparities will be published next week This publication analyses the two kind of regional labour market disparity indicators over the last years and how regional cohesion is developing 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets

Thank you for listening Any questions? Pedro-Jorge.Martins-Ferreira@ec.europa.eu 2/3-Oct-2008 Regional Disparity Measures in Labour Markets