While for instance Elhorst's (2003) important survey of research on regional unemployment differentials covers 41 contributions of which 15 focus exclusively on the UK and 14 on the US, this book, which comprises 14 papers presented at the seventeenth
AIEL conference held at the University in Salerno in September 2002, does much better: Six contributions focus on comparative analysis of at least two EU countries, one on Poland, one on Germany, one on the UK and one study is theoretical.