Labour market flexibility and regional unemployment rate dynamics: Spain 1980-1995

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-207

  Bande, Roberto ^a   Karanassou, Marika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Labour market lagged adjustment processes; Regional disparities; Spill over effects; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; LABOR MARKET; SPILLOVER EFFECT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67650308114     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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