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The European labour market regional dimensions.
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 presented at the seventeenth AIEL conference held at the University in Salerno in September 2002, does much better: Six contributions focus on comparative analysis of at least two EU countries, one on Poland, one on Germany, one on the UK and one study is theoretical. A slight national bias--which, howe...
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