Increasing unemployment rates have drawn more attention to regional employment and to labor market policies, which help to solve the problem. This book analyzes the issues that can contribute to unemployment and governments tools to solve those issues. Ida-Virumaa, an industrial county with mostly non-ethnic inhabitants is analyzed in comparison with Parnumaa, a county which has mostly ethnic inhabitants and with Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.The research (based on data from years 1993- 2002, i.e. prior joining EU) looks into the personal characteristics of the labor force; limitations that...