Fighting unemployment, especially among the young, is an important goal of many actors working at the regional labour market level. The transparency of the processes of the regional labour market is an important prerequisite for the systematic application of measures and other strategies to help reducing youth unemployment. With the instruments of regional labour market monitoring, a high degree of transparency can be continuously maintained. Therefore this anthology shows various monitoring systems and approaches of different countries including specific geographical, social, political and regulatory conditions of the different regions. This book was developed by several members of the European Network of Regional Labour Market Monitoring.

Dr. Christa Larsen is a social scientist and Managing Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture in Frankfurt am Main. Her current work concentrates on regional labour market monitoring, regionalised analyses of labour markets for health workers, systems for information and diagnoses of labour markets and regional prognoses. / Jenny Kipper is a pedagogue and Scientist at the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. Her current activities are focussed on process of organisational learning, organisational development, and development of quality. / Dr. Alfons Schmid is Professor for Economics at the faculty of Social Sciences and Scientific Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour, and Culture (IWAK) at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). His main areas of research are regional developments of employment and labour market, new information technology and impacts on employment situation, regional competitiveness, attitudes towards welfare states, regional forecasting and regional studies in poverty and wealth.