This paper discusses the challenges that European Monetary Union (EMU) poses for European labor markets, emphasizing in particular the regional dimension of the European unemployment problem. The authors argue that the inability of labor markets to adjust to shocks is largely a regional problem...

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. In addition, an increasing integration of the national economies into the global economy has affected these economic relations, too. In an effort to...

<sc>Krieger-Boden C.</sc> and <sc>Soltwedel R.</sc> Identifying European economic integration and globalization: a review of concepts and measures, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Processes of regional economic integration such as the European integration process have been shaping the economic relations between countries...