O desemprego nas regiões europeias (2007)

O Eurostat divulgou a publicação intitulada "Unemployment in EU-27 regions" através da qual temos o retrato do desemprego nas regiões europeias relativo a dados de 2007: "Both unemployment and regional labour market disparities have decreased over the last five years. Regional unemployment rates range from 2.1% in Zeeland (NL) to 25.2% in Réunion (FR). The highest unemployment rates were recorded in the French Overseas Departments and in the two Spanish Autonomous Cities, all with unemployment rates above 18%. The lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands, Austria, north of Italy and in the region of Praha. Low unemployment rates were also found in the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland. Regions with the highest unemployment rates had the steepest drops in unemployment, and therefore the dispersion of regional unemployment rates has fallen. Some regions saw a more gradual increase in unemployment rates. The greatest increase from 2006 to 2007 was 4.8 percentage points in Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla (ES), followed by Região Autónoma da Madeira (PT), at 1.4 percentage points, but more than twenty regions recorded falls by over 3 percentage points. In fact, every region with more than 15% unemployment rates in 2006 saw a decrease in 2007.
Map shows the distribution of unemployment rates by NUTS 2 regions as well as the dispersion of unemployment rates at NUTS level 2 and 3. The year 2007 saw a reduction in regional unemployment and an increase in regional cohesion but marked differences between EU-27 regions persist. Map also shows the countries with similar unemployment rates across regions, such as Poland and Sweden. Other countries record differing levels of regional unemployment rates, like Italy and Belgium, which have a marked distinction between northern and southern regions. Differences between NUTS level 3 regions in Romania and Bulgaria are significant, meaning that NUTS 3 unemployment rates are fairly heterogeneous to those in NUTS level 2 regions. The dispersion of unemployment rates in NUTS level 2 regions in the EU-27 stood at 44.1%, 1.5 percentage points less than the previous year. At NUTS level 3, the dispersion was 50.3%, 0.1 percentage points higher than in 2006".