This paper examines the relationship between regional or 'contextual' poverty, income inequality and unemployment and …, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. This research is based on the notion that there are 'concentration effects' of poverty … economic participation (see Wilson, 1987; Cohen and Dawson, 1993). In exploring this connection, I construct regional poverty …

and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we conclude with … a brief presentation of the most recent poverty rates for German Länder and Italian Regions derived from the LIS. It is …