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| Author: | Overman, H. G. Puga, D. |
| Title: | Unemployment clusters across Europe's regions and countries |
| Journal: | Economic Policy
2002 : APR, 34, p. 115-148 |
| Index terms: | UNEMPLOYMENT CLUSTER ANALYSIS EUROPE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | High unemployment and regional inequalities are major concerns for European policy-makers, but so far connections between policies dealing with unemployment and regional Inequalities have been few and weak. The authors think that this should change. This paper documents a regional and transnational dimension to unemployment - i.e., geographical unemployment clusters that do not respect national boundaries. Since the mid 1980s, regions with high or low initial unemployment rates saw little change, while regions with intermediate unemployment moved towards extreme values. During this polarization, nearby regions tended to share similar outcomes due, the authors argue, to spatially related changes in labour demand. |
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