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Despite its comparatively small size Great Britain has experienced very substantial and largely stable differences in regional unemployment rates for sixty years. The sharp post-1980 recession has served to heighten popular concern for the grave unemployment circumstances in certain locations, primarily the North of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the inner areas of the connurbations, and has helped to foster the view that these problems are symptomatic of the rigidity of British and perhaps other European labour markets in comparison with those in the US and Japan.
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Hughes, G., McCormick, B. (1989). Does Migration Reduce Differentials in Regional Unemployment Rates?. In: Van Dijk, J., Folmer, H., Herzog, H.W., Schlottmann, A.M. (eds) Migration and Labor Market Adjustment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7846-2_5
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