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Gardiner B., Martin R. and Tyler P. (2004) Competitiveness, productivity and economic growth across the European regions, Regional Studies38, 1037- 1059. During the last few years, there has been a significant interest by both academics and policy-makers in the notion of regional...

This paper examines the impact of the early 1980s recession on regional unemployment in Britain. More specifically, it seeks to evaluate the hypothesis that this recessionary shock was so severe that it caused an upward structural shift in the underlying mean unemployment rates of the regions....