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“The education to work transition of young people is key to a successful work-life and to fight youth unemployment. The book provides an impressive outline of the facts and convincing insights of the potential causes. This offers a large and broader audience help to adjust properly to achieve a better life.” Klaus F. Zimmermann, IZA, Bonn, Germany This work points to the youth experience gap as a key concept to explain the meager employment opportunities and earnings many young people face.The transition from education to work remains a long dark tunnel around the world. However, this book shows that there are striking differences between countries: in Germany, the young people of today are no worse off than their adult counterparts, while in Southern European and Eastern European countries they fare 3 through 4 times worse. The current economic and financial crisis has further exacerbated the situation for young people in many advanced economies. Observers are divided as to the optimal design of youth employment policy. Liberalists believe that the market itself should address youth disadvantages. More flexible labor markets should also guarantee greater labor turnover, including temporary work, so as to allow young people to move from one job to the next until they accumulate the work experience they need to become more employable and find the right career. In contrast, other economists oppose approaches focusing on entry flexibility and temporary work, claiming that the former type helps only the most skilled and motivated target groups, while the latter only allows young people to gather generic, not job-specific work experience. .

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This book focuses on the questions of how territorial differences in productivity levels and unemployment rates arise in the first place and why territorial differences in labor market performance persist over time. Unemployment divergence and unemployment club convergence have been touched on in a large number of works and have recently also been studied using spatial econometric analysis. In this book we aim to develop the debate to include several important new topics, such as: the reasons why structural changes in some sectors cause slumps in some regions but not in others; the extent to which agglomeration factors explain regional imbalances; the degree of convergence / divergence across EU countries and regions; the role of labor mobility in reducing / increasing regional labor market imbalances; the impact of EU and country-level regional policy in stimulating convergence; and the (unsatisfactory) role of active labor market policy in stimulating labor supply in the weakest economic areas.

Economics/Management Science. --- Labor Economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Geography. --- European Integration. --- Economic Policy. --- Economics. --- Geography. --- Economic policy. --- Europe --- Labor economics. --- Regional economics. --- Economie politique --- Géographie --- Politique économique --- Economie du travail --- Economie régionale --- Europe_xEconomic policy. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Regional economic disparities. --- Differentiations, Regional economic --- Disparities, Regional economic --- Economic disparities, Regional --- Imbalances, Regional economic --- Unequal economic development --- Variations, Regional economic --- Economic geography. --- European Economic Community literature. --- Spatial economics. --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Economic zoning --- Regional disparities --- European Economic Community lite. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history

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Until recently, regional labour market imbalances were considered transitory phenomena, a consequence of state failure in generating distorted investment incentives in depressed regions as well as of excessive labour market rigidities. Labour mobility and wage flexibility were at the core of the debate over the causes of and cures for regional labour market imbalances. This book bears witness to the changed perspective of research on these issues. In the recent literature, internal labour migration is depicted as a cause of further divergence between advanced and backward regions, as higher returns on human and physical capital are expected to be paid in those regions where these factors are already concentrated. The book contributes to the debate by presenting important new findings on: a) the reasons why structural change in some sectors causes a slump in some regions, but not in others; b) the extent to which poverty traps explain regional imbalances as compared to such other alternative factors as spatial dependence and nonlinearity in growth behaviour; c) the degree of convergence across EU countries and regions; d) the role of labour mobility in reducing/increasing regional labour market imbalances, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe; e) and the role of an active labour market policy and child care facilities in alleviating the hardship of the weakest segments of the population.

Economics/Management Science. --- Labor Economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Systems. --- Economic Policy. --- European Integration. --- Econometrics. --- Economics. --- Economic policy. --- Europe --- Labor economics. --- Regional economics. --- Economie politique --- Econométrie --- Politique économique --- Economie du travail --- Economie régionale --- Labor supply --- -EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- EEU / Central & Eastern Europe --- 332.691 --- 332.70 --- 332.602.0 --- 332.220 --- 334.151.54 --- Labor policy --- -331.1094 --- Labor --- State and labor --- Economic policy --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Evolutie van de arbeidsmarkt. --- Geschoolde en ongeschoolde arbeid: algemeen. --- Grensoverschrijdende mobiliteit (algemeenheden). --- Verandering van het loontarief: algemeenheden. --- Werkgelegenheid en werkloosheid in de Europese Gemeenschappen. --- Government policy --- 331.1094 --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- Verandering van het loontarief: algemeenheden --- Grensoverschrijdende mobiliteit (algemeenheden) --- Evolutie van de arbeidsmarkt --- Geschoolde en ongeschoolde arbeid: algemeen --- Werkgelegenheid en werkloosheid in de Europese Gemeenschappen

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Until recently, regional labour market imbalances were considered transitory phenomena, a consequence of state failure in generating distorted investment incentives in depressed regions as well as of excessive labour market rigidities. Labour mobility and wage flexibility were at the core of the debate over the causes of and cures for regional labour market imbalances. This book bears witness to the changed perspective of research on these issues. In the recent literature, internal labour migration is depicted as a cause of further divergence between advanced and backward regions, as higher returns on human and physical capital are expected to be paid in those regions where these factors are already concentrated. The book contributes to the debate by presenting important new findings on: a) the reasons why structural change in some sectors causes a slump in some regions, but not in others; b) the extent to which poverty traps explain regional imbalances as compared to such other alternative factors as spatial dependence and nonlinearity in growth behaviour; c) the degree of convergence across EU countries and regions; d) the role of labour mobility in reducing/increasing regional labour market imbalances, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe; e) and the role of an active labour market policy and child care facilities in alleviating the hardship of the weakest segments of the population.

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