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Revision with unchanged content. The problem of European unemployment has traditionally been studied as a national phenomenon. Various national studies have developed a hy po thesis the labor market hypothesis that prescribes a series of reforms in labor markets as the cure to unemployment. But do these reforms really work? And is there a regional dimension, or a continent-wide di men sion to the problem of European unemployment? The book Regional Labor Markets, Unemployment and Inequality in Europe departs from the labor market flexibility hypothesis in distinct ways: first, it changes the unit of analysis to the regional level to explore the regional di men sion, and, second, it incorporates the relationship between pay-inequality and unemployment. With these changes, forces at the regional, national and con tinental levels affecting the unemployment rate are included in the analysis. The book is aimed at economists, policymakers, political scientists, and professors and students of economics in general.

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The author, a former professional tennis player from Salamanca (Spain), obtained his undergraduate degree from Drake University in Iowa and his Ph.D. from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of James K. Galbraith. Since then, he has been working for the OECD in Paris.

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