Sunday 23 November 2008

Regional labour market disparities are narrowing

via Intelligence November 2008 from UKCES

New figures from Eurostat (the European Commission's statistical office) suggest that regional disparities in employment and unemployment have been narrowing over recent years. However, despite this, nearly a fifth of the economically active population in the 27 European Union countries is still living in under-performing regions in terms of unemployment. Eurostat's analysis looks at two kinds of regional labour market disparity indicators. These are the dispersion of employment and unemployment rates and the index of underperforming regions.
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