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Regional Employment and Unemployment

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A prominent theme in the socioeconomic and regional science literature has been the topic of unemployment. We focus on regional unemployment and put forward candidate series of explanations for it using a basic model of labor supply and demand. The persistence of regional unemployment differentials points to inefficiencies in labor markets that in the long run could affect aggregate unemployment rates. Both a lack of labor demand and a constraint of labor supply increase regional unemployment. We finally discuss people- and place-based policies which aim to reduce high unemployment rates.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali and CRENoS, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Torre Tonda 34, Sassari, Italy

    Francesca Mameli

  2. Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, UK

    Dr. Vassilis Tselios

  3. Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, Houghton St, London, UK

    Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

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  1. Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Manfred M. Fischer

  2. and Business Administration Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Faculty of Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

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Mameli, F., Tselios, V., Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2014). Regional Employment and Unemployment. In: Fischer, M., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Handbook of Regional Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23430-9_9

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