CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Megrelishvili, Shorena |
|---|---|
| Title | Analysing the Employment and Growth Effects of European Structural Funds in 2007-2013: Policy Implications and Recommendations |
| Summary | The European Union’s Cohesion Policy continues to remain under scrutiny; there is a growing amount of empirical research which explores its effectiveness and efficiency. This thesis focuses on the 2007-2013 programming period and explores the employment and growth effects of the Convergence Objective funding. It attempts to answer the research question whether or not Convergence Objective positively affected employment and growth rates in the recipient regions. The research tests the hypothesis that the employment and growth effects of the Cohesion funding have been limited due to the absorption capacity problems experienced by the EU regions. In order to evaluate the effects of the structural funding, the study employs regression analysis. Based on the analysis of regression estimates, the study concludes that the structural funding has been an insignificant variable in promoting growth and employment in the given period due to a multiplicity of factors. It argues that the lack of absorption capacity has been a key impediment in the effective implementation of the structural funding and provides policy recommendations to promote better implementation and performance. |
| Supervisor | Jokay Karoly, Lindstrom Nicole |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/megrelishvili_shorena.pdf |
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