Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargement

• 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 Productivity Polarization Across Western European Regions: Threshold Effects Versus Neighbourhood Effects.- Transition, Regional Features, Growth and Labour Market Dynamics.- Regional Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland A Convergence Approach.- Spatial Distribution of Key Macroeconomic Growth Indicators in the EU-27: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation.- Is Migration Reinforcing Regional Unemployment Differences?.- Internal Labour Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region: Evidence from Labour Force Surveys.- Spatial Search and Commuting with Asymmetric Changes of the Wage Distribution.- Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?.- Some Policy Tools.- Assessing Active Labour Market Policies in Transition Economies.- Regional Female Labour Force Participation: An Empirical Application with Spatial Effects.

From the reviews: "This book deals with a highly topical issue: various labour market impacts of the recent EU enlargement. The book consists of a number of research papers that were originally presented at a seminar. ... the book provides several important new insights about structural change and regional labour markets in Europe. I can recommend it to anyone who is interested in regional labour market analysis with a European focus." (Petri Bockerman, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 12 (4), July, 2012) "This book collects a number of thought-provoking papers and raises important policy-relevant issues with respect to structural change, convergence, labour mobility and regional labour market policy in the EU that are likely to inspire further research. Furthermore readers ... will find the literature surveys both in the review and in most of the research papers useful." (Peter Huber, Scienze Regionali, Vol. 11 (2), 2012) "The book's chapters (essays) are able to capture the main issues under discussion, while also providing a comprehensive set of theoretical and econometric methodologies used in the field of contemporary regional economic research. ... The book is useful to all academics, university students of economics - especially labor economics - as well as bureaucrats in international organizations and policy makers and union members interested in these themes. Thus, they can broaden and enrich their knowledge of such important issues of the day." (Alka Obadic, Croatian Economic Survey, Vol. 13 (1), April, 2011)