- DUALITY, SEGMENTATION AMD DYNAMICS' ON A REGIONAL LABOUR MARKET

ABSTRACT ' The paper is devoted to a study. of regional labour market structures. Attention is paid among others to spatial and occupational mobility in a j multiregional system. The dual labour market theory is critically reviewêd,. followed by a discussion of a more general segmentation theory and a labour market adjustment model.. In the paper an attempt is made to assess the degree of segmentation on a regional labour market (both the demand and supply side) hy means of a state profile of>relevant indicators. Due to the lack of reliable metric informa-tion, a multidimensional scaling technique is üsed to infer metric conclu-sions regarding the degree of segmentation at a regional labour market. Multidimensional scaling techniques are al.so used to assess a soft econometrie model for explaining the (changes in the) segmentation on a regional lahour market. The study will be concluded with an empirical application to some regions in the Netherlands. '