B<sc>ande</sc> R. and K<sc>aranassou</sc> M. Spanish regional unemployment revisited: the role of capital accumulation, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the period between 1980 and 2000. It argues that interactive dynamic systems of...

On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper demonstrates that the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) cannot explain the evolution of regional unemployment disparities in Spain. The analytical framework of the chain reaction theory (CRT) of unemployment argues that an interactive labour...

The existence and persistence of regional disparities in the unemployment rate is a common problem of many European economies. However, in Spain, this situation exhibits a characteristic feature: a strong positive relationship with the business cycle. The analysis in this paper investigates the...

Bande R., Fernandez M. and Montuenga V. M. (2007) Regional disparities in the unemployment rate: the role of the wage-setting mechanism in Spain, 1987-92, Regional Studies 41, -. The aim of this paper is to show how regional unemployment disparities in Spain widen during economic upturns and to...