On the Challenges of Unemployment in a Regional Europe Book

	Acknowledgements
	Challenges of unemployment in a regional Europe	1
1	OECD Jobs Study 1994: 'Unemployment is probably the most widely feared phenomenon of our times. It touches all parts of society'	9
2	Behaviour in labour markets during transition in Eastern Europe	25
3	Economic activity and rural unemployment in Poland	45
4	Some particularities of the unemployed population in Slovenia	67
5	Women's labour market in European integration	87
6	Culture of benefits: Theoretical approaches and empirical data	103
7	Search and application behaviour of the unemployed in Friesland	123
8	Actors and factors in finding a job or remaining unemployed: Longitudinal research into the position of the long-term unemployed in the Rotterdam labour market	145
9	Occupational trajectories: The importance of longitudinal evidence in understanding change in social stratification	167
10	The continuity of unemployment: Self-perpetuation or social predestination?	181
11	Anticipations of inflation, inflation bias: unemployment as a substitute for rising prices	201
12	Is the Dutch economy really short of low-paid jobs?	221
13	The making of FREM: Construction of a labour demand block in a regional econometric model	241
14	A method for evaluating training policy for the unemployed, with special reference to the Frisian situation	263
15	The Regional Employment Board: management or directorship?	283
16	Going beyond modernization: New perspectives and prospects for rural employment	303
17	Reflections and perspectives	329