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Ongoing activities at the OECD
Eurostat Working Group on Regional and Urban Statistics
8-9 October 2009Eurostat Headquarters, Luxembourg
Brunella Boselli, [email protected]
OECD Meeting at the ministerial level: “Investing for growth,
building Innovative regions”Background report
Understand how regional development policies
best support regional growth
Reference to analytical work carried out by the OECD in recent years
Ministerial meeting:Points for discussion /1
• Wide variation among regions in term of income levels and growth rates (few signs of sustained convergence)
• Urban regions tend to have higher income but not necessarily higher growth: No consistent relation between concentration and increasing economic performance
• Faster growth depends on a combination of higher utilisation of labour and increased productivity
Ministerial meeting:Points for discussion /2
• Higher productivity depends on a range of factors (infrastructures, human capital, innovation performance)
• But no single factor explains improved performance
(the positive impact of investment in infrastructure on growth depends on educational attainments and innovation levels)
• Simple concentration of investments and assets is not enough.
The key is how assets are used, how different stakeholders interact and how synergies are exploited in regions of different type.
The market does not always appear to maximise this potential alone
OECD Regions at a Glance 2009
• Issued in March 2009• Focus on regional
Innovation• Organised around 5 major
themes:1)Innovation2)Concentration of resources3)Disparities among regions4)Factors of regional growth5)Regional well-being
Focus on Regional InnovationCorrelation between patents and business R&D expenditures
Patents with at least one co-inventor by residence of the co-inventor
Section2 : ConcentrationPercentage of GDP by the highest producing region in the country
Section3: DisparitiesRange in TL3 regional unemployment rates
Section4: Factors of growthComponents of change in GDP
per capita for the top 20 regions
Section5: Regional Well-being
Labour force by educational attainment
Definition and measurement of metro regions /1
Two main work directions:1) Survey of different definition of metropolitan
regions to understand what criteria were more sensitive to build a comparable definition
2) Applied methodological work to produce one operational definition to be used for comparison of urban regions in OECD urban reviews.
OECD Metropolitan Database (78 metros > 1.5 million pop)
Similar results obtained by EU in approximating LUZFuture work (OECD-EU-Eurostat) to harmonise the 2
datasets
Definition and measurement of metro regions /2
London expert’s workshop 29-30 September 09I. Aim of the meeting was the identification of a definition
based on criteria of functionality using building blocks small enough to ensure good approximation of metro boundaries
II.A list of 10 metro regions was selected on which few definition will be tested
III. Data availability for small building blocks orients the work toward the use of administrative/register or census data (availability of data needs to be evaluated). Data for productive activities to be estimated
The work should then move forward the inclusion of a larger number of metro regions (and a framework for the delimitation of smaller urban areas)
Refinement of the OECD regional typology: USA Accessibility
Refinement of the OECD regional typology
Public investment and services for regional development
• Investment strategies undertaken by government to address the crisis– Coordination with sub-national actions– Comparative analysis of regional policy
strategies aimed at improving efficiency and quality of public spending
• Intermediate product: survey on the availability of regional data on public capital expenditures
Preliminary results end 2009Final report second half 2010.
Work on MigrationThe Aim is to analyse how migration flows impact
the local endowment of human capital and consequently the regional growth process and productivity differentials across regions
Data used: • Census (to describe the characteristics of leavers and
incomers)• Registers/Eurostat regional (to derive time varying
indicators of inflows and outflows)• OECD regional database to determine economic effect
of migration-induced changes in human capital endowments
The study will be completed by a few country cases.
Growing Lagging Regions
This project investigates which factors have been successful in helping lagging regions catch up to national standards and in particular the role that regional policies have played in this process.
Knowledge developed in analysing the sources of growth in OECD regions, and in preparing the OECD Territorial Reviews
The aim is identifying best practices and recommendations for improving policies in this field.
The OECD Regional Database
Tool on which is based most of the quantitative analytical work at the regional level of the OECD
Available at: http://stats.oecd.org link
For EU countries the OECD relies almost entirely on the Eurostat regional database, which is a unique and very powerful tool for regional socio-economic analysis
For non-EU countries the collection is made through the Working Party on Territorial Indicators
OECD Regional eXplorer
Tool for interactive visualisation of regional dataavailable at:
http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/Link
eXplorer can be adopted by Countries to display their own statistics on their web-sites
Contact Michael Jern at:[email protected]
Thank you!
More information on the OECD work
on regional statistics:
www.oecd.org/gov/regional/statisticsindicators
link
