Table of Contents:
  • Employment Dynamics in Leading and Lagging Rural Regions / Ida J. Terluin and Jaap H. Post
  • Theoretical and Methodological Framework / Ida J. Terluin
  • Statistical Analysis of Employment Growth in Rural Regions of the EU, 1980-1995 / Roberto Esposti, Frans E. Godeschalk, Tuomas Kuhmonen, Jaap H. Post, Franco Sotte and Ida J. Terluin
  • Employment Dynamics in Two Neighbouring Rural Regions of Belgium and France / Bruno Henry de Frahan, Pierre Dupraz and Béatrice Van Haeperen
  • German Case Studies : Niederbayern and Lüneburg / Heino von Meyer and Danielle Schrobiltgen
  • Employment Dynamics in Rural Greece : the Case Study Regions of Korinthia and Fthiotis / Sophia Efstratoglou and Angelos Efstratoglou
  • Comparison of the Spanish Case Studies : Albacete and Zamora / Jordi Rosell, Lourdes Viladomiu and Gemma Francés
  • Rural France : the Case Study Regions of Les Alpes de Haute Provence and La Nièvre / Jean-Pierre Bertrand and Bernard Roux
  • Comparison of the Italian Case Studies : Pesaro and Macerata / Roberto Esposti and Franco Sotte
  • Comparison of the Dutch Case Study Regions : Drenthe and Groningen / Ida J. Terluin, Jaap H. Post and Anita J. Wisselink
  • Employment in Rural Austria : the Case Study Regions Osttirol and Liezen / Franz Weiβ
  • Rural Employment in the Arctic Fringe / Tuomas Kuhmonen and Olli Aulaskari
  • Lessons for Employment Creation in Rural Regions / Ida J. Terluin, Jaap H. Post, Heino von Meyer and Béatrice Van Haeperen.