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• Title:
  Structural Heterogeneity Between EU 15 and 12 New EU Members – the Obstacle to Lisbon Strategy Implementation?
• Creator:
  Olczyk, Magdalena
• Description:
  The aim of this article is to identify diversity between the EU-15 and the New Members in their implementation of the Lisbon Strategy in the period 2000-2010. By analyzing a set of structural indicators, we aim to fill a gap in the literature: the lack of publications providing complex evaluation of the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy using measurable indicators. Given their suitability for international comparisons, we use two taxonomic methods: Ward’s cluster analysis and the synthetic variable method proposed by Hellwig.The results of our analyses confirm the hypothesis of a large gap between the EU-15 countries and the 12 New Members in the key areas of the Lisbon Strategy. According to rankings given by our taxonomic analyses, a high level of the indicators selected is confirmed only for the EU-15 countries and only three New Members belong to a group presenting the average level of these indicators. This study demonstrates a need for a significant intensification of the EU cohesion policy, which is one of the main tools for achieving the Lisbon Strategy goals.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2015 Equilibrium
• Date:
  2015.02.19
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Equilibrium; Bd. 9 Nr. 4 (2014); 21-43;
  Equilibrium. Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy; Vol. 9 No. 4 (2014); 21-43;
  Equilibrium; Tom 9 Nr 4 (2014); 21-43
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/EQUIL/article/view/EQUIL.2014.023/5042
• Subject:
  Lisbon targets;
  European Union;
  multivariate analysis;
  structural indicators
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/EQUIL/article/view/EQUIL.2014.023
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text