The problem of European unemployment has traditionally been studied as a national phenomenon. Various national studies have developed a hypothesis - the labor market hypothesis - that prescribes a series of reforms in labor markets as the cure to unemployment. But do these reforms really work? And is there a regional dimension, or a continent-wide dimension to the problem of European unemployment? The book 'Regional Labor Markets, Unemployment and Inequality in Europe' departs from the labor market flexibility hypothesis in distinct ways: first, it changes the unit of analysis to the regional...