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The European Labour Market Regional Dimensions
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The European Journal of Comparative Economics
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January 1, 2008
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The European Labour Market Regional Dimensions Floro Ernesto Caroleo and Sergio Destefanis (editors)1 by Peter Huber, Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Vienna
This collective volume is published at a time when, in conjunction with the enlargement of the European Union and the Lisbon agenda, regional labour market issues are once more arousing increased academic and political interest. One of the book's strengths in this respect is its wide geographic coverage. While for instance Elhorst's (2003) important survey of research on regional unemployment differentials covers 41 contributions of which 15 focus exclusively on the UK and 14 on the US, this book, which comprises 14 papers ...