This publication was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the programme of work of the Local Economic and Employment Development programme.
This publication was managed and drafted by Anna Rubin, under the supervision of Karen Maguire, Head of the Local Employment, Skills and Social Innovation Division of CFE. Quantitative analysis was conducted by Michela Meghnagi and Ida Peltonen, under the supervision of Alexander C. Lembcke. This report also incorporates substantial contributions, analysis, and comments from Jonathan Barr, David Halabisky, Lucas Leblanc, and Alessandro Kandiah. It also draws from recent papers prepared by the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities for the OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19) series and the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Papers series, including those prepared by Cem Ozguzel and Paolo Veneri; Antonella Noya, Max Bulakovskiy, and Julie Rijpens; Ekaterina Travkina, Pier Luigi Sacco, and Benedetta Morari; Simone Grabner, Alexandra Tsvetkova, and Wessel Vermeulen; and Mattia Corbetta; among others. Rudiger Ahrend and Joaquim Oliveira Martins also provided useful guidance and feedback. The country profiles were prepared by Anna Rubin, Michela Meghnagi and Lucas Leblanc. Eric Gonnard and Claire Hoffmann prepared the maps.
The OECD would like to thank the delegates to the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Directing Committee for their valuable input and responses to the survey on “Subnational variation in labour market and related policies”. Particular thanks also goes to the Directing Committee Steering Group for this publication. This group was led by Ann Van den Cruyce (Department of Work and Social Economy, Flanders, Belgium). It included the following Delegates (at the time of preparing this publication): Brodie Berrigan (Employment and Social Development, Canada), György Nagyházi, (Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Hungary), Andrew Paterson (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom), Lucy Pyne (Pobal, Ireland), and Paolo Reboani (Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, Italy).
Anna Ikic prepared the manuscript for publication, and Pilar Philip coordinated the production process.