The European Labour Market

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Sergio Destefanis

   Pages 1-7

3. Regional Disparities in Europe

   • Adalgiso Amendola, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Gianluigi Coppola

   Pages 9-31

4. Regional Unemployment in the OST Literature

   • Anna Maria Ferragina, Francesco Pastore

   Pages 33-87

5. Regional Employment Dynamics in the EU: Structural Outlook, Co-Movements, Clusters and Common Shocks

   • Enrico Marelli

   Pages 89-121

6. Does Space Matter for Labour Markets and How? A Critical Survey of the Recent Italian Empirical Evidence

   • Mario A. Maggioni, Francesca Gambarotto

   Pages 123-146

7. Labour Market Reform and the Beveridge Curve across Italian Regions

   • Sergio Destefanis, Raquel Fonseca

   Pages 147-163

8. Enterprise Defensive Restructuring: Cross-country Evidence within Transitional Settings

   • Polona Domadenik, Maja Vehovec

   Pages 165-178

9. Widening Unemployment Differentials in Italy: the Role of Wage and Labour Productivity

   • Michele Limosani

   Pages 179-185

10. Skill Mismatch and Regional Unemployment in Poland

    • Andrew Newell

    Pages 187-202

11. The Wage Curve and Agglomeration

    • Jens Südekum

    Pages 203-219

12. A Panel of Regional Indicators of Labour Market Flexibility: the UK, 1979–998

    • Vassilis Monastiriotis

    Pages 221-244

13. Regional Wage Flexibility: the Wage Curve in Five EU Countries

    • Víctor Montuenga, Inmaculada García, Melchor Fernández

    Pages 245-265

14. Large-Scale Labour Market Restructuring and Labour Mobility: the Experiences of East Germany and Poland

    • Vania Sena

    Pages 267-286

15. Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany. A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

    • Reinhard Hujer, Uwe Blien, Marco Caliendo, Christopher Zeiss

    Pages 287-309

16. Evaluating Asymmetries in Active Labour Market Policies: the Case of Italy

    • Carlo Altavilla, Floro Ernesto Caroleo

    Pages 311-338

17. Back Matter

    Pages 339-342

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This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries to a market economy. The topics analysed include: the structure of the shocks affecting employment (regional, industrial, national), the relationships between labour market efficiency and the regional distribution of unemployment, wage flexibility in EU member countries or in their regions and the role of active labour market policies in affecting the regional distribution of employment and unemployment.

• Central and Eastern Europe
• Eastern Europe
• European Union (EU)
• Labour Market Efficiency
• Labour Markets
• Regional Employment
• Unemployment
• Wages

From the reviews: “A reader, who reads all chapters, will be provided with a good overview of the topics currently on the research agenda in European regional labour market research … . this book brings together a wide range of contributions on topics that are likely to remain in the core … for some time to come and thus provides a good overview of the current literature in European labour market research. Furthermore it presents many interesting hypotheses that could be used as inspiration for further research.” (Peter Huber, The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 5 (1), 2010)

• Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy

  Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Sergio Destefanis

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