Social attitudes and regional inequalities
As the budgets of the European Union (EU) become tighter, the questions about the effectiveness of EU’s expenditure, especially the most important parts such as Cohesion policy, are hotly debated. The aim of this paper is to examine whether the presence of social attitudes may influence the effect...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch
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| author | Vinko Muštra Lena Malešević Perović Silvia Golem |
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| description | As the budgets of the European Union (EU) become tighter, the questions about the effectiveness of EU’s
expenditure, especially the most important parts such as Cohesion policy, are hotly debated.
The aim of this paper is to examine whether the presence of social attitudes may influence the effectiveness
of EU budget expenditure, measured by the level of regional inequalities. The analysis starts by focusing
on individuals’ attitudes towards income from their own effort and income which is derived from other people’s
effort, having in mind that individual actions depend on their attitudes. The next step establishes the
link between the income from other people’s effort with the re-distributive dimension of the EU budget, considering
that different attitudes among individuals in the EU could lead to significant differences in effectiveness
of this redistributive policy among European regions and, consequently, diverse regional inequalities.
Empirical research uses data for 27 EU countries observed over two waves of European Value Surveys:
1999-2000 (Wave 1) and 2008–2009 (Wave 2). The results indicate a significant role of social attitudes for
regional inequalities, which raises the question of the appropriateness of simplification and uniform regional
policy instruments in solving EU regional problems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0365cc52538a43f8965d3f842a00da2d2023-08-02T01:44:04ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural BranchЭкономика региона2072-64142411-14062014-03-0120141667310.17059/2014-1-5Social attitudes and regional inequalitiesVinko Muštra0Lena Malešević Perović 1Silvia Golem2University of SplitUniversity of Split University of Split As the budgets of the European Union (EU) become tighter, the questions about the effectiveness of EU’s expenditure, especially the most important parts such as Cohesion policy, are hotly debated. The aim of this paper is to examine whether the presence of social attitudes may influence the effectiveness of EU budget expenditure, measured by the level of regional inequalities. The analysis starts by focusing on individuals’ attitudes towards income from their own effort and income which is derived from other people’s effort, having in mind that individual actions depend on their attitudes. The next step establishes the link between the income from other people’s effort with the re-distributive dimension of the EU budget, considering that different attitudes among individuals in the EU could lead to significant differences in effectiveness of this redistributive policy among European regions and, consequently, diverse regional inequalities. Empirical research uses data for 27 EU countries observed over two waves of European Value Surveys: 1999-2000 (Wave 1) and 2008–2009 (Wave 2). The results indicate a significant role of social attitudes for regional inequalities, which raises the question of the appropriateness of simplification and uniform regional policy instruments in solving EU regional problems.http://www.economyofregion.com/archive/2014/48/2213/pdf/social attitudesregional inequalitiesEU regional problems |
| spellingShingle | Vinko Muštra Lena Malešević Perović Silvia Golem Social attitudes and regional inequalities Экономика региона social attitudes regional inequalities EU regional problems |
| title | Social attitudes and regional inequalities |
| title_full | Social attitudes and regional inequalities |
| title_fullStr | Social attitudes and regional inequalities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social attitudes and regional inequalities |
| title_short | Social attitudes and regional inequalities |
| title_sort | social attitudes and regional inequalities |
| topic | social attitudes regional inequalities EU regional problems |
| url | http://www.economyofregion.com/archive/2014/48/2213/pdf/ |
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