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

2. Structure of my talk Definitions Methodological aspects
NUTS 2 versus NUTS 3
Results
Dissemination
Statistics in Focus
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. Quality of NUTS level 3 estimates
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7. Results – Dispersion of unemployment rates
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8. Dispersion of unemployment 2006
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9. Results – Underperforming regions (unemployment)
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11. Dissemination
Regional labour market disparities are now a special collection of tables in NewCronos. They are public since a few days.

12. 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
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13. Thank you for listening
Any questions?
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