Since 1992, claimant unemployment has fallen by almost 1½ million and on the ILO definition by nearly 1 million. Despite this fall, changes to the headline rate of unemployment masks a far more complex pattern of the UK?s unemployment experience. For many individuals unemployment is a...

Border regions and the implications for their development have become a subject of considerable interest in the ongoing process of European integration. The removal of national barriers and the development of greater economic and political transborder co-operation has led to a reconsideration of...