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...

Introduction -- Some Stylised Facts -- The Youth Experience Gap -- The Mainstream Approach to the Causes of Youth Unemployment -- Weaknesses of the Mainstream Approach -- The Interventionist Approach -- A Classification of School-to-Work Transition Regimes. .

An Overview of the Main Issues and the Role of Structural Change -- Structural Change and Labour Reallocation Across Regions: A Review of the Literature -- Organized Labour and Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Czech Republic and Romania -- New Evidence on Spatial Convergence -- Labour...